The Daily Special

The Daily Special

  [Click on BLUE links for sources or more information)     By age 35 I expected to be President, very famous or at least very, very rich.  Instead, by 35 I had three sons, a beautiful wife, and a restaurant business where I made great friends.  I had...
The Mendocino Shuffle

The Mendocino Shuffle

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...
New Years at The Sea Gull 1975

New Years at The Sea Gull 1975

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...