Did you know about Manager John my roommate at the time, who got coked out and stole the contents of the safe?. However he left enough money in banks to open the restaurant the following morning!   Next, the opening manager Skipper Cutty cleaned out the bank money before calling Lou, Frank, and the police ... so, when we all had to take lie detectors in a suite they booked at  the Alta Mira ... Skipper was going to fail, so John confessed.   Frank didn't turn him in, but confiscated the stash John bought, and Frank shared it with staff commenting on each line what poor taste John had.  I didn't think it was that bad.

The punch line?  Rip-Off John ended up, and still may be the DA in Sonoma County?  All because Frank didn't charge him.

By the way, for the Trident talent show Sharlee did a strip tease as the finale.  Her main talent.

I was also held up at gun point twice in my Trident history, and I was working the time the nude streaker guy ran down the bar surface, across the floor, and dove into the Bay. 

When I met Mick Jagger at a private party he asked for a margarita and I turned him onto a Tequila Sunrise which Billy Rice and myself invented in 1970,  when the Trident served more tequila then all the other bars in the US combined.  There is documentation on this somewhere.  Anyways, Mick took the drink across country in 1972 and promoted it.

And of course I was tending bar for the Hell's Angel's Sunday afternoon take over and subsequent fight with the offensive line of the San Francisco Forty Niners.  The next day it made the headlines of the San Francisco Chronicle. And,the San Francisco Forty Niners won! The Hells Angels used glass coffee pots from the bus stations as frisbee type weapons and damaged some players.  Which became the reason thereafter we only used metal coffee pots.  I never used a pyrex pot again in my career. Dangerous weapons!

More excerpts from emails:

Frank's original lawyer was Michael Metzger, Metzger was brought in by the Feds from NY to prosecute Frank.  He lost.   Metzger quit the prosecutors office and then got divorced, and then joined Frank's law team, and took up with the Trident waitresses. The Feds then busted him and Frank, at the DeSilva Island house and it made a big stink in the newspapers.

Shirly, aka Thunder Pussy, Styles, and Debris was among the most exotic girls to work at Trident.  Hard core sixties Gate Fiver.   One week Lou ordered her to do cocktails on deck against her wishes, and she went out and changed into a riské Pre WWII sleazy cocktail outfit.  A tiny red crinoline sticking out perpendicular from the crotch and not much more, but very artsy.

She also starred in the non commercial porno "Marriage of Captain Garbage andThunder Pussy"  filmed in the mud  location at Gate Five around 1969.  In that era non commercial meant for fun of it.  She also sang with "the Tubes" for years.

BTW:  After the Jazz Club days up to the beginnings of the Trident Frank's nick name in the press was "High Priest."   Tommy Smothers was also in attendence for the trial with other celebrities like the Reverend Cecil Williams!

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