Comments on: Minnie’s Can-Do Club

By: Liza

Liza — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:38:00 +0000

Dear Nicola,
My boyfriend and I lived with you and several other people in San Fransico when you were painting Minnie’s portrait. You read the Hobbit to me. I’ll never forget you.
Liza

By: rosevalley55

rosevalley55 — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Minnie opened the club in 1969, and soon a group began to coalesce
around her. Someone suggested music, so they got a piano. Someone else
suggested poetry readings, and Tuesday became poetry night. They put a
ping pong table in the back and had tournaments.

By: Beer Pong Table Dimensions

Beer Pong Table Dimensions — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:48:00 +0000

By: Randal

Randal — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:07:00 +0000

Fillmore Street was a wild smorgasbord in the early 70s. By day, the rich ladies from Pacific Heights were dropped off from their Mercedes Benz cars to shop in the antique shops. By day, Fillmore Street was Lower Pacific Heights. By night, however, it was “Upper Fillmore”; the black Cadillacs with their white side-wall tires cruised around Minnie’s Can-Do. As a nerdy white guy commuting to Berkeley to get a master’s degree in engineering, I never ventured in. Too bad.

By: Merrill Black

Merrill Black — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:19:00 +0000

loved this place

By: Merrill Black

Merrill Black — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:19:00 +0000

loved this place

By: Barbara Wyeth

Barbara Wyeth — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:34:13 +0000

Marie, thanks for your kind words. Minnie's was special and real…I'm glad my story brought back good memories of those funky good times!

By: Barbara Wyeth

Barbara Wyeth — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:34:00 +0000

Marie, thanks for your kind words. Minnie’s was special and real…I’m glad my story brought back good memories of those funky good times!

By: Marie Benton

Marie Benton — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:32:08 +0000

Thank you so much Barbara for bringing back such beautiful images and memories of Minnie’s club!!

We came to SF in ’74, lived in Bernal Hights, and friends took us there for the music, the dancing, the folks, the good times… I loved it, your words say it all! I’ve been back to France for many years now, and still recall this magical little place when nostalgia comes by, or when I need some lively memory to cheer me up.

I did leave my heart in SF, and a good chunk of it at Minnie’s Can-Do!!

By: Marie Benton

Marie Benton — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:32:00 +0000

Thank you so much Barbara for bringing back such beautiful images and memories of Minnie’s club!!

I did leave my heart in SF, and a good chunk of it at Minnie’s Can-Do!!