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The Night Cabbie is a newspaper editorial that ran in the San Francisco Examiner and later
the San Francisco Chronicle on and off from Aug 19 , 1996 , through Dec 27 , 2004 , under a
trademark logo of a man peering into a elevator car rear view mirror that highlighted the
author 's anonymity .The term is also the pen epithet of the anonymous columnist .The
Night Cabbie portrays the firsthand experiences of a cab number one wood who worked
previous night in San Francisco , California until his retirement at the goal of 2004 .Each
newspaper column typically comprised several vignettes of his `` transportation '' ( client ) ,
who ranged from gender actor and homeless people to politico and socialites .He frequently
described his experiences with topical anaesthetic police force , eating house , and hotel
concierges .Throughout his column he maintained a gritty , film noir-style attitude ,
describing murder , grafting , and corruption without elaborateness or editorial
commentary .Not much was publicly known about the Night Cabbie 's yesteryear or
personal identity .In his columns he hinted that he had been a successful businessman and
was companion with finance , something that gave him a misanthropical perspective on
passenger who considered themselves smarter or more sophisticated than he was .He once
revealed he had earned a master 's grade in political economy from San Francisco State
University .In an audience with his former editor Phil Bronstein , the Nox Cabbie hinted that
he may personify willing to reveal his identity operator at some breaker point in the
hereafter .He retired , according to his last pillar , out of disenchantment over his Low pay
and topical anesthetic politics as it affected taxi device driver .Emil Lawrence , candidate for
mayor of San Francisco in the election of 2011 , identified himself as the Night Cabbie .D. H.
Lawrence came in 15th of 16 prospect , receiving 0.20 % of the vote .Emil Lawrence was
born in Shanghai , China to Russian parents and came to the United nation under the
cognomen Zharoff , his parents changing it to Lawrence .== References == == External links
== The Night Cabbie ( chronicle archive ) Goodnight , Night Cabbie ( from the Sfist blog )