Cliff House and Ocean Beach, January 2009, by Paul Judge.
Ben brought WNP member Bill Alvarado, who lives in the same Richmond District home that his grandfather built back in 1915. Bill’s father was what Will Connolly called a “makeup man” for the San Francisco Chronicle. No beauty products were involved, though; a makeup man laid out the pages of the newspaper back in the day of linotype machines. Memories and stories of the old newspaper days (Will’s father was a well-known sports columnist for the Chronicle) flowed around the tables.
Paul Rosenberg, inspired by the Presidio Middle School yearbook Tammy Aramian had bought on eBay, sang songs from his junior high school alma mater (from memory, with just the occasional peek at the lyrics in the yearbook).
Talk of the fate of a mysterious Whitney Brothers pick-up truck that used to hang around Pasquale’s restaurant on Geary Boulevard came up as well. Anyone know in whose hands that Playland delivery vehicle ended up?
We’ve decided to make the meet-ups quarterly instead of monthly; move it to a day of the week when more can attend; and perhaps add a presentation aspect to the social gathering—just to make the event more special. We’ll keep you posted!
“We’ve decided to make the meet-ups quarterly instead of monthly…” And I had plans all laid to make the April meetup, including a reservation at Seal Rock Inn with my husband! Anyone want to meet up on April 19th anyway?
Hey, we said quarterly, so April works. We’ll ask the Cliff House if we can make it a bigger event and have a presentation, etc.
Woody, that would be terrific! Thank you.