And then several years worth of terrible, terrible publicity about the city: 2,000 murders a year; people fleeing; 320,000 fewer jobs; Fortune 500 companies leaving in record numbers.
But most of Jobs' fortune, which rose $1 billion in the last year to $6.1 billion, lies with the value of the Disney stock he owns to the tune of $4.4 billion.
Now, with jobs, fortunes and investment banks lost, a cultural linchpin seems to be slipping away.
And he had it -- this was in 1947 -- in the form of an unbelievably cushy job at Fortune magazine.
There followed a job with Fortune magazine, part of the stable, along with Time and Life, of the rightwing magnate Henry Luce.
As finance jockeyed with technology as economic bellwethers, job hunters, fortune seekers and the news media hopped along for the ride.
This is the one he seems to leave behind when he graduates from Harvard to New York, where Dwight Macdonald, with whom he has been corresponding about films since he was at Exeter and Macdonald at Yale, wangles him a writing job at Fortune magazine.
Then, in the fall of 1995, when the scale of Apple's troubles had become fully apparent, Jobs told Fortune that he had a plan to fix the company.
Now that Mr. Jobs is gone, many people expect that attention will focus on his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, who has largely avoided the spotlight, but is expected to oversee Mr. Jobs's fortune.
So, why do women still only hold less than 15percentt of executive management jobs at Fortune 500 companies?
"What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off," Jobs told Fortune in 2008.
