I wrote this article for the Baffler in mid-2001 about San Francisco on the downward edge of a boom cycle. No boom is ever fully like the last one, but maybe it bears rereading in light of current talk about frothiness in the tech sector.
The article ends by saying J. & I had talked about moving. Funnily enough, we stayed put in our place South of Market.
Meanwhile the former Petopia building at 8th and Folsom, which is mentioned in my 2001 article, went through a whole lot of tenants. It was an a architect’s office some of the time. Sometimes it was hard to tell what exactly was in there.
For a while Lutheran Social Services ran its rep/payee office out of the north end of the ex-Petopia building. I’m nearly sure it was the subject of this 2013 Vice article, the one that said so many mean things about social service clients in “the Tenderloin”. (Brian Brophy and Kevin Montgomery answered that article very well here.)
Now the Petopia building is a tech office again.
Stay tuned.
Unquiet Titles 
But let’s not forget a form of something like the result Orwell described in “Shooting an elephant”, a maladjustment, damage to the psyche or the soul perhaps, just an American one, lives on in social workers, police officers, judges, public defenders, parole oficers, perhaps anyone who works in the undeniably correct name for the bloated beyond redemption American incarceration system: The American Gulag archipeligo. Let the research continue. http://www.wisbar.org/newspublications/wisconsinlawyer/pages/article.aspx?volume=84&issue=12&articleid=2356