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 29, 2016 | Sea Gull |
A typical summer night. The bar is heating up. The bartender is rushing around behind the bar trying to keep up with drink orders. Two men are arguing. One is very drunk. “He sez I cannae have a drink. That bah-bah-bartender o’er there.” The drunk man points his...
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...
