Name Dropping
Tales From My San Francisco Nightclub

Barnaby Conrad graduated from Yale and became the American Vice Consul in Spain from 1943-46. He was a boxer, a bull fighter, a world traveler and even worked as a piano player in a hotel in Peru. He was an accomplished artist having studied at the University of Mexico. He’s the author of 30 books.......more

Pretty decent memoir primarily of the author's life owning/running a saloon in North Beach of San Francisco. The era was essentially the '60s, so these (and of the previous generation) are the names that are dropped. A good deal is also devoted to bullfighting and various famous stories and figures......more

Written by American artist, author, nightclub proprietor, bullfighter and boxer Barnaby Conrad, this is a jaunty anecdotal account of the years he ran the El Matador nightclub in San Francisco in the 1950’s and early 60’s. He seemingly knew everyone in that Golden era of the city by the bay. Great f......more

Can’t say this was time we’ll spent reading this. Parts were interesting but ….......more

great tales of old SF......more