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| Don Herron, the hatted noir bar tourguide, is easy to find online. Spotlighted here are four noirs on his tour. Above, John’s Grill, Financial District, 63 Ellis Street, |
BAY AREA LIQUIDITY--Earlier
this summer writer Dan Saltzstein wrote an excellent travel piece “San
Francisco Noir” for the New York Times. In it he pointed out Don Herron, a local has
a one-man Dashiell Hammett tour of the big name noir bars in downtown San
Francisco. Among them is a bar missed by
this blog’s venerable Saloon Editor Christopher Barnett. Others spotlighted by
the NYTimes were House of Shields,
John’s Grill and Tosca Café.
“If I had the resources of the NYTimes,” sniffed Barnett, “I coulda got you the story first.”
Well, here’s a delicious snippet from Saltzstein’s piece in
the NYTimes:
“...Perhaps no spot
better celebrates the San Francisco-noir association better than a speakeasy-style
bar secreted within another speakeasy-style bar — and in the Tenderloin no
less. Heading down Jones Street toward O’Farrell, I passed a pane of frosted
glass labeled the Wilson and Wilson Private Detective Agency. With a password,
I gained entry to Bourbon and Branch, a dimly lit and bustling cocktail bar.
After a quick right through a fake wall, I headed into Wilson and Wilson, a
love letter to noir, Prohibition-era drinking and, as the name indicates, the
detective trade...”
For the entire NY Times article go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/travel/san-francisco-noir.html?emc=eta1
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| House of Shields, South of Market, 39 New Montgomery Street, www.thehouseofshields.com |
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| Tosca Café, North Beach, 242 Columbus Avenue, www.toscacafesf.com |
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Wilson and Wilson, 505 Jones Street/The Tenderloin, www.thewilsonbar.com
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