by Think In The Morning | Nov 6, 2016 | Sea Gull |
[click on highlighted links for further information] When everyone is insane, ‘Tis folly to be wise (Paul Samuelson, 1970 Nobel economist rephrasing Thomas Grey) If you can keep you head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 30, 2016 | Sea Gull |
[Click on highlighted links for videos and more information.] In the 70s we had Opal’s Silver Spoon Café on the Lily Tomlin show and Mel’s Diner in ALICE. Today these have morphed into the Food Network. A pinch and a shake are no longer the norm. Recipes are...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 8, 2016 | Sea Gull |
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 16, 2016 | Sea Gull |
The old Sea Gull Cellar Bar really was a cellar, a hole in the ground carved out below the dining room and accessed via a spiral staircase from inside the restaurant upstairs. That staircase was the bane of many waitresses and waiters who ran up and down to retrieve...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
A few patrons and some of the staff referred to the Sea Gull Cellar Bar as The Meat Market or The Butcher Shop. This was a variant of the Mendocino Shuffle itself “a pun on the rather open sex life of many free-love folks at the time” and the inspiration for at least...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 15, 2016 | Sea Gull |
The post below was transcribed from My Bag by Joe Fitzpatrick published in the Monterey Peninsula Herald on Friday, January 10, 1975. Mendocino in the 1970s was a different place than it is today. Things moved at a slower pace. The article describes accurately but...
