Noir Francisco

Have the spirit of Herb Caen mix you up a dry Manhattan and take a look at this site from the Museum of the City of San Francisco with a great pictorial history of the city in 30s and 40s, a perfect resource for the Rebar for Tootsie Rolls world. It includes the German-American Bund, an ACTUAL San Francisco nazi organization (!!) in the late 1930's, here valiantly protested by Musicians Local 6. The old Nazi building is still there, at Polk and Turk.

Thank god, there are very, very few Nazis left in San Francisco. Fresno, on the other hand...

This an actual menu from Sally Rand's Nude Ranch at 859 Farrell st, the only place I can think of where being an urban cowboy makes perfect sense.