BIG DAY UPDATE
It is 9 a.m.. Yes, I did drag myself out of bed, even put on lipstick, and rolled down the hill to Market Street. Lots of people but it hardly looked like the 25,000 - 50,000 they were expecting. All seemed to be going well, especially the moment when one of the Earthquake survivors revealed to Mayor Newsom that she had been raised by prostitutes. Then the singing began, sort of. Note to future organizers: spend some money and get yourself a professional singer and a few musicians to help the crowd sing-along. This is not the moment to reveal that our political leaders in SF are tone deaf. But soon this moment of embarassment passed and the Muse was sipping a Mimosa at the Palace Hotel with other revelers. The breakfast was a fundraiser for the Chinese Historical Society of America and the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. The food was your usual big hotel breakfast buffet fare. But the coffee was very good. Simon Winchester, writer, historian, geologist and author of A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 spoke. Gotta go...the parade starts soon...
You are so right, Patricia. The clomp of the horse drawn fire engines really brought it all to life for me, too. Next year I will check out the Lucky Penny for breakfast.
Posted by: culinary muse | May 02, 2006 at 08:23 AM
Hello
Four of us were there in the early morning hours too. And we agree, the Golden Gate Park Band should have been invited to play-on stage in their wonderful red uniform jackets!!
Didn't the combination of the clomp of the horse-drawn fire engines, the colored lights on the Ferry Building and the dawn behind coming up behind it make the trip to Lotta's fountain worth while?
We went to the Lucky Penny on Geary Street for a very satisfying (and cheap) full breakfast.
Posted by: Patricia | May 01, 2006 at 10:58 PM