Well-wishers packed Chief Sullivan's pub in San Francisco Friday night for a special celebration in honor of former mayor Willie Brown.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Well-wishers packed Chief Sullivan's Irish pub in San Francisco's North Beach Friday night for a special celebration in honor of hizzoner -- former mayor Willie Brown.'As of next Wednesday, the 20th of March, I will be exactly 90 years old,' Brown proclaimed. After serving two terms as San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown achieved true celebrity status in the city. At Chief Sullivan's everyone wanted to take pictures and share old stories with 'Da Mayor.
The tavern was packed with notable guests. Michael Smith, consul general of Ireland attended along with Max Gail, the actor who played detective Wojo in the 1970s sitcom 'Barney Miller.''He's a guy who's conducted himself with dignity and grace and a fierceness in what I think is a really good way,' Gail said.'If you're OK at this business, you can actually have a friend or two that's not asking you for anything,' Mayor Brown said.
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