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7 unusual facts about Herb Caen


Cecilia Chiang

One day, Vic Bergeron (founder of Trader Vic's) came to the restaurant with Herb Caen, who immediately began to popularize the restaurant in his newspaper column.

Edsel Ford Fong

Fong was made famous by columnist Herb Caen, who often described the misanthropic Fong during his visits to Sam Wo.

Ellipsis

Herb Caen, Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, became famous for his "Three-dot journalism".

Herb Caen

Readers who turned to Herb on Feb. 14, 1966, learned that Willie Mays' home was on the market for $110,000.

San Francisco: City on Golden Hills, illustrated by Dong Kingman, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967.

Johnny Strike

In 1977 they began wearing police uniforms and putting on their own shows at a Filipino supper club in North Beach called the Mabuhay Gardens prompting mentions in Herb Caen's column.

Ralph Rambo

A self-proclaimed "nostalgician," he could be compared with other social historians such as Herb Caen in San Francisco, California and "Petaluma Peopleologist," Bill Soberanes.


Jessel Miller

She had a one person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1980, "Bay Area Personalities", watercolor portraits of Maya Angelou, Herb Caen, Louise Cavis, Melvin Belli and Dianne Feinstein.


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San Francisco Chronicle

For many years "Herb Caen" was the only feature on its page (it traditionally shared a section front with a Macy's advertisement).