That puts Butte on the map. I think our sidetrip is going to run us down the coast toward Monteray to visit with friends rather than up the Sacramento Valley.

While in San Francisco, I'm also going to be trying to track down the Bella Union, a surviving relic of the Barbary Coast infamous dance halls, so I've been told. There was also the Midway Plaisance which probably imploded years ago but is remembered in the fine traditional sea shanty "Fire Down Below" recently revived by Bob Walser and The Johnson Girls. Then my friend Capt. Bunker of China Sea Marine Trading Co. in Portland, ME, has urged me to look up his old haunts: Local #9 of IWW,Li Po's Pub, the Golden Dragon Restaurant and Sam Wung's whatever at the corner of Grant & Broadway. What joy!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble