St. Patrick's Day: It Really Was Better Back Then

Front and Sacramento, St. Patrick's Day 2006.

St. Patrick's Day used to be an unofficial holiday in San Francisco.

The City would close Front Street to traffic, and Harrington's Bar and Grill was the center of the milling about.

Last fall Harrington's shut down rather than gut it out to the re-opening.

Harrington’s Bar and Grill will permanently close after an 85-year run in San Francisco. Michael Harrington, its third-generation owner, shared the news in a short message posted on the business' website...

“The decision was very difficult to make but with everything we have to do regarding reopening in an unsafe environment for each of us,” Harrington wrote. “To wait out this pandemic was financially unreasonable.”

Some of what we have lost is permanent.