The accounts of the time of DuBray tell how he would shoot sea ducks in the San Francisco Bay wetlands, perhaps with the same gun his grandson is inquiring about to sell. Lot of family history there. I’m sure glad I have my grandfather’s gun, although it sure isn’t anything high grade or special except to me.
Edgar, I was in San Francisco a few years back and stayed at the Marine Memorial Club. Lines of flags with battle streamers carried at Guadalcanal, Tawara, Iwo Jima, Saipan , where my father was. It’s always a humbling experience. Too bad the old quarters at the Presidio where I used to stay for almost nothing are closed. I thought I’d walk on down to the Sutter, go to Tadich, and old North Beach. All those places that Dashiel Hammett wrote about are there.
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