Remembering San Francisco’s First Naming as the “Good Herb” City

Over the years, people have left their hearts in San Francisco.

The author Rudyard Kipling said,

San Francisco has only one drawback – ’tis hard to leave.

Paul Kanter of Jefferson Airplane said,

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

Ashleigh Brilliant, author and cartoonist, said,

There may not be a Heaven, but there is San Francisco.

The writer William Saroyan said,

If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

During this week in 1969, newspapers shared this little snippet about San Francisco.

San Francisco was originally known as Yerba Buena - Spanish for good herb, a small mint-like plant early explorers found.