Along with couple dozen curious and thirsty people, I joined AIA San Francisco’s North Beach bar crawl last Thursday. We discovered the Barbary Coast origins of the Comstock Saloon, founded as the Andromeda Saloon by boxing promoter James J. Griffin. In the back room of Tosca, we shared the same space with Sean Penn, Francis Ford Coppola, Lars Ulrich as well as Nureyev and many Russian ballerinas who had defected during the cold war. We wrapped up the night at the once seedy Adler museum cafe, which shares it’s bathrooms and a secret back stairwell with the strip club on Broadway.
