My mom taught me to read before kindergarten. Used the Chronicle not text books. Think I started just as I turned four. The Sports were all green pages in 1950. Growing up nobody called it the Sports or the Sporting Green. It was always the "Green." Back then in The City newspapers ruled. The Examiner, the Call, the Bulletin, the News, the Progress plus an AA paper. The Bulletin became the Call Bulleti and then the News Call Bulletin. The Ex and the Chron merged their printing business and put out a combined Sunday paper in the late 60's. The conservative Examiner founded by WH Hearst is now a liberal paper preaching to the choir of San Franciscans. Herb Caen, Stan Delaplane, Paine Knickerbacher, John Wasserman, Bill Leiser, Will Connolly and Chuck McCabe all had the effrontery to die and the paper over the years has increased in boredom while decreasing its number of pages.
All the young folks and those who sprint through life can't handle an actual paper newspaper. A pox on them. The Chron will only deliver on Sundays to my non-county maintained road so I only have a once a week bliss reading in front of the wood stove. Ted Kacsynski did have a couple of things right.
So I don't know when the green paper started but it was green in 1950.
All the young folks and those who sprint through life can't handle an actual paper newspaper. A pox on them. The Chron will only deliver on Sundays to my non-county maintained road so I only have a once a week bliss reading in front of the wood stove. Ted Kacsynski did have a couple of things right.
So I don't know when the green paper started but it was green in 1950.