1910 COPPAS RED PAINT RESTAURANT,SAN FRANCISCO,POSTCARD
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c1910 COPPA'S RED PAINT RESTAURANT,SAN FRANCISCO,POSTCARDUNUSEDTHIS IS ONE OF THE THREE POSTCARDS OF THE LEGENDARY COPPA'S RESTAURANT I LISTED TODAY ON EBAY PLEASE FOLLOW MY AUCTIONS GUISEPPE COPPA WAS ONE OF PIONEERS OF ITALIAN RESTAURANTEURS IN SAN FRANCISCO. Coppa's, located in the Montgomery Block Building ( short period restaurant located on 453 Pine street), was the most famous of all the Bohemian rendezvous spots and the city's favorite Italian eatery before the 1906 earthquake and fire. Located close to the stock exchange, Coppa's attracted brokers and financiers during the day, but once the sun set, it was the mecca for Bohemians.30 Gelett Burgess had also immortalized Coppa's in his romance, The Heart Line, as "Fulda's." The food was rated above average, thanks to the culinary expertise of Giuseppe Coppa, the Turinese chef who had trained in some of the city's top restaurants, notably the swank Poodle Dog Restaurant, after closing his trattoria in a North Beach alley. Coppa's was quickly adopted by San Francisco's Bohemians -- Jules Tavernier, Joe Strong, long-haired Xavier Martinez, Porter Garnett, George Sterling, Jack London, Gelett Burgess, Maynard Dixon, Will and Wallace Irwin, and the rest of the publishing staff of the avant-garde literary magazine, The Lark. T was a mutually satisfying relationship between the
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