I had abalone ..... Can't get that anymore?<<

Nope

>>San Francisco certainly rivals top cities around the world, in having great restaurants. You lucky ducks.<<

The ducks hanging in the storefront windows in Chinatown aren't very lucky.

Stu Dudley

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My favorite "nicer type" Italian restaurant downtown/Financial district is Perbacco - right next to Tadich.

Stu Dudley

I always get to Tadich by 11:30 to 11:45 to make sure I get a table (actually, I usually sit at the counter, but that's when you need to get there for a table).

Stu Dudley

Perbacco's is a nice recommendation. Reservations a must - try Open Table.

For French, try L'Ardoise Bistro.

LOL re: the Peking Duck. And to think the SD Health Dept tried to outlaw a what - 6,000 year old Chinesedelicay?

Oh - the bureaucrats and their finding reasons to exist.

Went diving for Abolone way back - 1970 or so - with a buddy of mine who was a stockbroker. We were up by Ft. Ross/The Russian Fort - and he and another classmate of ours from Regis had gotten into trouble in an earlier dive. Note - you had a thick steel bar about a foot long and two inches wide and tapered front to back - and you had to slip it underneath the Ab's shell - as if you didn't surprise them - their interior muscle just clamped down very hard on the rock and they were virtually impossible to dislodge.

Anyhow - a few months before - my friend and our other classmate were diligently diving down to the seaweeds for abs (fairly deep free dive - maybe 20 feet plus)- and they didn't notice the tide coming in. When they came up - it was higher and the wave action was up - and they kept getting washed off the shore rocks by waves.

Finally - a 12? year old Boy Scout extended his fishing pole down to one of them and that helped him scramble up - and he didn't know the other guy had also been saved - until at least an hour later.

Since one was a stockbroker - a couple days later - on the front page of the Wall Street Journal - was a headline: Boy Scout saves stockbroker and friend. :)

Tom, I think I have asked you before if you went to Regis College in Denver? DH and I went there. Son went to Regis H.S.

If you asked that I guess I missed it. Yes, graduated in '68.

And ye youngsters? :)