Thursday, December 17, 2009  Gun-slinging Bus Drivers  Titanic,
starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet represents one of
the more memorable epic movies made in the modern era. I
thoroughly enjoy James Cameron’s creative direction making the
wistful ruminations of Gloria Stuart appear in "real time.
Genius!  This afternoon I met Lydia, a Gloria Stuart of a
different era. Lydia boarded my northbound route 72; her bubbly
personality made me smile.  Lydia voiced amazement in bus
transit improvements over the years, conjuring up the past as
she recalled It while we traveled through the City.  She spoke
of growing up South of Market where warehouses laden with ship-
borne goods proliferated the area. Wistfully, she spoke of how
she looked forward to each Thursday when her mother brought her
down to the shipyards so she could eat lunch with her father.
Lydia proudly proclaimed her attachment to San Francisco. Born
in the City in 1936, the year before the completion of the
Golden Gate Bridge, the massive project