Sometimes I feel like I got to San Francisco just a little bit too late. By the time I got here in 1990, the cabaret heyday was long past, and just a year before, the famed Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel " where Ella Fitzgerald and Lena Horne and Sammy Davis Jr. had all performed and where, in 1962, Tony Bennett introduced a little tune called "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" " shut its doors as a musical ve…
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 10:30AM on October 18, 2010