A heartfelt blog post!
by Admin on Sep.30, 2009, under San Francisco News
Truthfully all my blog posts have been heartfelt so I don’t want anyone to think because I captioned this one “A heartfelt blog post” that my other blog posts have been less so!
I recall a rather untrustworthy fellow I worked with in my media business days who would sometimes preface his comment with “Ross, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you this time” (suggesting that he was not “perfectly honest” with me all the times he did not preface his comment with that). But that’s another story.
Last night I went to Beale Street Bar & Grill’s final night at their location next to the Transbay Transit Center where for nearly a quarter century they have hosted generations of San Franciscans.
Not of their own choosing, BSBG had to abandon this location to make way for the Transbay Terminal project – San Francisco’s biggest real estate development in decades if not of all time. Progress, I suppose.
The place was packed with people who had been coming there for years – and in the conversations I overhead people talking about how their parents came there before them. Beale Street Bar & Grill is authentic San Francisco – the type of place that has contributed to the unique flavor of the City.
It has been my pleasure to find BSBG a new location at 142 Minna Street – between New Montgomery and Third – just behind SFMOMA. And it has been my pleasure to come to know BSBG proprietors Gloria and her son Tony during the course of the assignment.
Progress on the opening of the new Beale Street Bar & Grill has run into a couple of hitches but I’m confident that these will be overcome and that when they do open it will be a smashing success – and I’ll keep working to help them! Especially because Tony promised me that I will have my own dedicated bar stool – bronze plaque and all!
And in closing let me leave you with another great song - this time by Sly & The Family Stone – I remember seeing Sly at a high school football rally when he was a DJ for KSOL. But that’s another story.
