Everything about Sally Stanford totally explained
Sally Stanford (
May 5,
1903–
February 1,
1982) was a
madam, restaurateur, and the
mayor of
Sausalito, California.
Born Mabel Busby in
Baker, Oregon (Baker County) in
1903, she came to
San Francisco in
1924. She eventually came to run San Francisco's most famous and elegant
bordello at 1144 Pine Street near Jones Street on the south slope of
Nob Hill in a house built by
Stanford White (demolished in
1961 to build
condominiums). She was the madam of this house of ill repute from
1940 to
1949, when it was raided by
Edmund G. Brown, Sr., then the
attorney general of
California.
It was said by
Herb Caen, writer for the
San Francisco Chronicle that "the
United Nations was founded at Sally Stanford's
whorehouse", because at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in June
1945, many of the delegates were customers of Sally Stanford and a large part of the actual negotiations took place in the
living room of her
cathouse.
In
1950, she opened the Valhalla restaurant in Sausalito. She ran six times for Sausalito City Council and finally won in
1972, was vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, a Little League sponsor and in
1976, was re-elected with a majority that made her mayor at the age of 72.
Stanford died of a heart attack at age 78, in Marin General Hospital, on
February 1,
1982.
Sally Stanford adopted the name Stanford as one of many
pseudonyms for Mabel Busby. According to her autobiography,
A Lady in the House, she saw a newspaper headline about
Stanford University winning a football game and adopted the surname.
Famous quote
"Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you—like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at
Stanford University."
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