Lit City: Stories from San Francisco’s Dive Bars
By Instant City • From Lit City: Stories from San Francisco Dive Bars, Multimedia
They’re the repositories of so much of the city’s undiscovered history, of anecdotes and information that rarely find their way into ink– some of the best stories out there. And San Francisco, original home of the shanghai and the world’s largest collection of ‘last chance’ saloons, is particularly endowed with bar stories. From Chinatown’s underground dens to SOMA’s industrial caverns, the Tenderloin’s dives to the Fillmore’s jazz joints, the Mission’s Mexican pubs to the clubs and surf shacks on the outer edges of the city, so much of the city’s history and stories lie in shards on the floors of its many watering holes. In attempt to sweep up a few good ones, we asked contributors to send in stories their favorite dives.
