Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon

Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon

When it opened in 1953, Bennett Cerf called Barnaby Conradâ€™s saloon â€œthe most attractive room in America.â€ San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen pronounced it â€œswank,â€ and wrote that because of it North Beachâ€™s Broadway, â€œthat garlicky old boulevard of longhaired men and shorthaired women will never be the same.â€

In â€œName Dropping,â€ renowned raconteur and â€œNew York Timesâ€ best-selling author Barnaby Conrad tells the story of his San Francisco nightclub, the beloved El Matador, named and decorated in honor of his international bestseller Matador.

For ten years, El Matador glittered with stars like Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Duke Wellington, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Lenny Bruce, Lucille Ball, Art Tatum, Eva Gabor, George Shearing, Bing Crosby, William f. Buckley Jr., Alex Haley, Robert Mitchum, Andre Previn, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac.

This was where entertainers came to be entertained, leaving their priceless doodles and boozily enigmatic epigrams in the guest bookâ€”and a captivating trail of exploits and gossip all noted and recalled in this book.

Charming, personable, and witty, the author is both celebrity and fan as he shares vivid, hilarious, and surprising anecdotes, delightfully dropping famous names all the while. Conrad remembers everything, from Sinatraâ€™s plan to star in a movie version of the authorâ€™s bullfighting story â€œMatadorâ€ (in order to lure Ava Gardner out of the arms of the real-life matador sheâ€™d left him for) to Truman Capote making friends with Conradâ€™s bulldog.

Grab a stool, pull up to the piano bar, lean in close and prepare to be transported to the Golden Gate cityâ€™s golden age.

â€œGossipy memoirs on celebrities abound, but Conrad's book is cut above the rest.â€
â€”William Gargan, Library Journal

Country	USA
Author	Barnaby Conrad
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781618091666
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	The Write Thought
Manufacturer	The Write Thought
NumberOfPages	212
PublicationDate	2013-06-25
Publisher	The Write Thought
ReleaseDate	2013-06-25
Studio	The Write Thought

Name Dropping: Tales from My Barbary Coast Saloon

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