It made me inexplicably happy to read this line from a web page about the Gold Rush era, translated from the French by Google:
"San Francisco is a market on which the gold of the sierra and the goods of the whole world are treated, a cosmopolitan city where “the west meets is”, and which develops quickly."Ah, to have lived in the days when the west met is! I'd gladly have given up ever seeing a Marx Brothers movie, just to have witnessed that!