"Name Dropping: Tales From My Barbary Coast Saloon" 1994 CONRAD, Barnaby
$45
CONRAD, Barnaby
[212] pp.
HarperCollins West
1994
First Edition
8" x 6"
Illustrated, including from drawings by Author Conrad and various guests at his establishment.
Author Conrad was an artist, bullfighter, restaurateur and author of both fiction and non-fiction books. El Matador, Conrad's elegant saloon on Broadway in San Francisco's North Beach, was a very popular meeting place in the 1950's for locals and visiting celebrities. From Herb Caen's foreword: "In San Francisco, for a gaudy decade when the world was young, everybody who was anybody came to the Matador