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Tech was not an existentially-huge fraction of SF's economy back then.

The peninsula, where it always has been, got hammered.

At the time I was commuting from SF to the mid-peninsula. I recall meeting with one of my clients in a field-house sized cubicle farm which must've had at least 300 desks, probably more. We were the only two people in there in the middle of the day on a weekday.

Suburban office space gets spooky during recessions, due to its sheer bigness...




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