“Old San Francisco—or, in other words, San Francisco before the earthquake—was divided in half by a line. This feature was an iron crossbar running in the middle of Bazarnaya Street. Attached to this crossbar was an endless rope, to which carts and carts could be tied, and which pulled them from one end of the street to the other. Essentially speaking, there were two crossbars, but in everyday life they were considered as one and were simply called a crossbar, or a line. To the north of the line there were theaters, hotels, luxury shops, banks, offices; on the other side of the line, to the south, there were factories, gloomy dens, taverns, laundries, repair shops and houses where workers lived...” Translation: Sergey Zayaitsky