From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Tante Esther came to see me and brought me a little squab, but when I found out what a squab was I couldn’t eat it. It’s a little pigeon just like the ones we feed in front of City Hall.
Pulitzer Prize Award winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen would have been appalled by people feeding pigeons at City Hall. Hilda would not have agreed with his repeated complaints about the pigeon population here. She would have liked Julie Andrews’ rendition of “Feed the Birds” in the film “Mary Poppins” much more.