“You ask any cab driver in town where the best burger is, and they’d say Clown Alley — and they’d mean us,” San Francisco restaurateur Bill Pailhe told reporters in 1994. “But sometimes people went to the other one.” Most cities can’t boast a late-night burger joint themed around the part of a circus tent where clowns don their makeup. But, for a time, San Francisco had two. The rivalry between the city’s two Clown Alleys, located 2 miles apart on either side of Russian Hill, lasted for three decades and ended with looming lawsuits and an earthquake… read more >
Metallica and Van Halen kicking it backstage on the Monsters of Rock Tour in 1988.
America had long been crying out for a regular hard rock festival. Fuelled on the memories of the 1970s California Jams, the Bill Graham Presents
