[CatoRenasci]

BTW, Halleck was stationed in California during the Mexican War, and was one of the principal authors of the original California Constitution. He left the Army in the mid-1850s to practice law in San Francisco (Halleck St. is named for him) and was the owner of substantial property up in Marin (Rancho Nicasio - there’s still a hamlet by that name and the Nicasio Dam out near Red Hill Road which connects Petaluma to the Coast around Tomales Bay - perhaps you’ve spent some time there - as a teenager, I used to ride my bike out to the coast on that road, making a circuit that took me up past Bodega Bay and in through Graton and Sebastopol....)

[SF Republican]

There is a pre Civil War bar here in San Francisco I frequented in my single days called The Saloon. I liked to fantasize that a number of those Gentlemen may have frequented the place. It was a rather unique place, they had a urinal along the bar (until 1972) that provided the opportunity to never need to leave your bar stool.