More Tales Of The City 2

Travel Guide

San Francisco

Macondray Lane

The inspiration for Barbary Lane is Macondray Lane – though the location is not where Armistead describes here though..

“The house was on Barbary Lane, a narrow, wooded walk-way off Leavenworth between Union and Filbert. It was a well-weathered, three-story structure made of brown shingles. It made Mary Ann think of an old bear with bits of foliage caught in its fur. She liked it instantly.”

Jiffy’s Market

Almost immediately, she picked up the phone and dialed Jiffy’s Market. She ordered half a gallon of milk, a box of Familia and some bananas. There was something very comforting about cereal. It made her think of childhood at Halcyon Hill.

The delivery boy arrived in fifteen minutes.”

Pacific Union Club- California Street

“The traffic light changed. Burke and Mary Ann pressed through the mob at the crosswalk and strode west up California Street. To their right, the mud-brown fortress called the Pacific Union Club squatted disapprovingly in the midst of the middle-American chaos. Silent, foreboding, impenetrable.”

The Endup

401 6th St – This is not the original location mentioned in “Tales of the City”

‘I, Michael Mouse Tolliver, am going to enter the jockey shorts dance contest at The Endup.’

‘Oh, please!’

‘I’m serious, Mona.’

And he was.”

Legion of Honor

“Beachamp sighed. ‘Junior League, Bruno. That doesn’t matter. It’s out at the Palace of the Legion of Honor. It starts around eight, so you can tell your man…well, you can figure out when it’ll be over. She’ll be driving her mother’s Mercedes, I’m s