from a bill posted on the mission wall, the paragraph below reads:

Mission Dolores, 3321 16th Street, 1906

After the earthquake struck, destroying the basilica parish at the Mission Dolores (but not the then 131- year old mission), some claimed that the true fault of the earthquake rested not on geology, but in the the morality of San Franciscans. These dogmatists cited San Francisco's rowdy Barbary Coast bars and brothels and the opium dens of Chinatown as reason enough for their God to punish the city, "San Francisco was so wicked and bad that god had to strike it down, so as to punish it." Anti-dogmatists retorted, in particular, one poet mused at the surviving A.P. Hotaling whiskey warehouse in downtown San Francisco:

If, as some say, God spanked the town
For being over frisky,
Why did he burn the Churches down
And save Hotaling Whiskey?