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Here is San Francisco in its champagne days, that era of rich and riotous living from the Gay Nineties up to "the Fire" of 1906. It was the age of double beds and double standards, torchlight parades and bitter politics, of tallyho parties, bicycles, and bloomers. And it was the period when the Barbary Coast with its cellars and dives was rated the wickedest spot on earth. Here was a city where the men drank deeply and lived well. The famous Poodle Dog Restaurant, Marchand's, Tortoni's, the playboys - Hermann Oelrichs, Ward McAllister, Jr., and Raphael Weill - they're all here, along with such literary lights as Ambrose Bierse and others, in Evelyn Wells's lively record of early San Francisco.
Champagne Days of San Francisco | 
