The ten largest MSAs in 1960 (SMSA for everything except Chicago and New York, which are CMSAs) with current rank in parentheses.
- New York (1)
- Chicago (3)
- Los Angeles (within a whisker of Chicago) (2)
- Philadelphia (5)
- Detroit (11)
- San Francisco (13)
- Boston (10)
- Pittsburgh (!!) (22)
- St. Louis (18)
- Washington (8)
San Francisco is just San Francisco-Oakland--if one added San Jose it would be in the same position in 1960 and further up the ranks now. I forgot that Pittsburgh was once a top ten MSA. There is obvously a lot more persistence here.
