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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Darlene Sularski, a cocktail waitress and hostess at Lefty O’Doul’s Restaurant and Tavern, recoiled in horror Tuesday morning when she opened a package delivered to the famed San Francisco establishment.
Inside the box was the severed left arm of Lefty O’Doul, legendary San Francisco baseball player and manager.
“To look at,” said the sergeant-major, fumbling in his pocket, “it’s just an ordinary little paw, dried to a mummy.”
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1. Sean Forman Posted: July 21, 2010 at 02:26 PM (#3595001)that should help narrow down the suspects
One of my friends used to work for the Warhol museum. They've been working to open and catalogue the contents of all of his time capsules for the last few years. It's a real mixed bag. Works of art, scraps of paper, crusty old porn mags, random household objects... even one that contained only a wad of raw pizza dough (and a large number of dead flies, which presumably invited themselves).
Anyway, they opened one of the boxes a few years back and found a mummified, severed human hand. To the best of my knowledge, they've never been able to identify the owner, or determine how Warhol acquired it.
Well, that and the fact that they included photos of themselves with the arm in the box when they returned it...
For anyone curious as to what the son actually looked like, see yesterday's photo of the day.
Perhaps I had too high of hopes (why, I don't know), but I ate there about 3 years ago and thought it was mediocre at best, though a cool place on the inside with nice staff.
It's thriving; always seems to be busy every time I go there.
The food is hofbrau standard, nothing fancy. But they have good brews on tap, a full bar, and tons of authentic vintage memoribilia covering every wall. It truly WAS Lefty O'Doul's place; it didn't just use his name, nor was it built after he died, or anything like that.
What more do you want? It's a fun place.
Might want to look into grafting it onto Gil Meche, once his falls off.
Sheesh.
Kind of a reprehensible guy, but he did have a certain amount of style.
Lefty's occasionally tenuous existence is mainly based on landlords who try and raise its rent more than any lack of business.
Nothing spells fun like combining bikes and beer.
(Though some of the wall swag was admittedly cool.)
Where's Larry? He can confirm which limb.
But Stan & Biggie's is still around after 61 years. And Albert Pujols just opened a new place to give The Man some competition.
But if Flynn says its a treasure, I guess I have to check it out.
Huh, you're right, it was a leg. That's not nearly as topical.
I must've been thinking about Phil Kearny. Or O.O. Howard.
Combining this with one of the other threads going now, I think there should be a place in the Hall of Fame (genuine induction, not some Spinksy thing) for the Lefty O'Douls and Buck O'Neils (to name the two most prominent types) and others, men and women whose contributions to the game may not be easily measured but in totality have nonetheless added greatly to our appreciation and understanding of the game.
See, I don't get it. What could people's expectations be, that they have something bad to say about Lefty's?
It isn't a sit-down restaurant, it's a hofbrau. It's a sports bar, from back before the kitschy modern mass-produced concept of sports bar was even invented. This is the genuine old-school article.
In order to find something to complain about there, you'd have to either have remarkably misinformed expectations, or just be wanting to complain.
I completely agree, but that would take a lot more vision than you're ever going to get out of any Hall of Fame committee. Christ, look how long it took Bill Veeck to get in, and Marvin Miller's still looking in from the outside.
EDIT: In the hopefully unlikely event you remember my many food posts here over the years, you'll know I'm not super picky or high brow either.
That said, Lefty O'Doul, the player and man - very cool.
What in the world is your expectation the quality of sublime excellence of steam-table corned beef and mashed potatoes in a beer-hall cafeteria?
I've had their food a billion times. It's corned beef or pastrami usually for me and some mashed potatoes. It's pretty hard to screw those things up, and I've generally found they haven't. It's very much food for a 1950s white American male palate, but I'm cool with that.
Indeed, the menu very obviously hasn't been updated one iota since about 1953. Neither has anything else in the place. (Certainly not the access to the restroom, which shall we say would not be in compliance with today's ADA standard. After about the fourth beer, that long, narrow and steep concrete stairway is not for the faint of heart.)
That's precisely the beauty of the place.
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