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 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Lella Doherty operated a large farm near the small town in the Sacramento Valley where I grew up. She was an independent woman, lived alone, and had an intimidating demeanor. I worked at the local grocery store. One of my jobs was to deliver her orders. She did a...
