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Tag Archives: Monroe Street
Frisco Beat: When They Renamed Monroe
Brian Wallace just sent me the link to an article about renaming San Francisco streets — with a little section about Monroe Street getting the new moniker of Dashiell Hammett Street. The article writer doesn’t seem to be aware of … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco
Tagged Brian Wallace, Dashiell Hammett Street, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary streets, Monroe Street
Tour: Back in May 1994
In the history of the tour, Steven Meikle from Edinburgh is pretty damn famous — he saved for something like five or six years so he could haul in to San Francisco and take the Hammett Tour that fell closest to the … Continue reading
Frisco Beat: Living in Hammett Street
The blurb on the 25th anniversary of the literary streets attracted Bruce Dettman’s attention, and he popped me a note about how he once lived in 20 Monroe Street, now 20 Dashiell Hammett Street, one-time digs of Hammett himself. Bruce … Continue reading
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Tagged 891 Post, Bruce Dettman, Dashiell Hammett Street, literary homes, literary streets, Monroe Street
