"Name Dropping: Tales From My Barbary Coast Saloon" 1994 CONRAD, Barnaby

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

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