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1970s: The second in the tales of the city – San Franscisco
1970s: The second in the tales of the city – San Franscisco
The divinely human comedy that began with Tales of the City rolls recklessly along as Michael Tolliver pursues his favourite gynaecologist, Mona Ramsey uncovers her roots in a desert whorehouse, and Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with the amnesiac of her dreams.
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.”
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.”
“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.”
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.”
“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
Destination : San Francisco Author/Guide: Armistead Maupin Departure Time: 1970s
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