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This is impressive scholarship; many thanks for that. But this is some powerful nostalgia for me, and has completely distracted me. I have lived in SF since before the International Hotel came down, before Dan White assassinated Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and just before the Golden Dragon massacre (I attended the entire trial of Melvin Yu, the youth gang member who wielded the machine gun that he blasted inside the restaurant). Warren Hinckle said of these last years of the 70's, that they were "the most emotionally devastating years in San Francisco’s fabulously spotted history." And the Mabuhay Club on Broadway, just down the street from the blinking anatomy of Carol Doda, was the scene of midnight madness on a 4th of July that provided the drama for one of my earliest trial victories, one that makes me boastful, a victory that still astonishes me. Like I said, this is some powerful nostalgia for me. Indulge me just a little further, remembering:

At the Rainbow Tunnel

1 December 1976

5:05 p.m.

On the eastern horizon

The full moon dawns

Over the Berkeley hills

And when I look back

I see the sun

In glistening destiny

Beginning to set

In the west

Just so they were

It is said

At the creation

And so they will be

At the twilight of time

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