The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford

by Sally Stanford

"I didn't set out to be a madam,' Sally writes, 'any more than Arthur Michael Ramsey - when he was a kid - figured someday on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. Things just sort of developed for both of us I guess. Based upon our qualifications and our native disinclination to do more arduous labor."

Sally Stanford tells all in a book that is both scandalous and riotous. To countless American males who knew her famous house of pleasure in San Francisco, Sally Stanford, the empress of 1144 Pine St, was America's Number One Madam, and these marvelously amusing and revealing memoirs fully live up to her reputation for living in the high style.

Here is Sally telling about her life, her times, the great and near-great she has known, about San Francisco in the wide-open days before the war, about her numerous tussels with the law, about her retirement and her and her famous Valhalla Restaurant, and about her historical campaign for council member in Sausalito, California.

255 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1966

Reviews

[Mary Note · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe the best autobiography I have ever read. Such a great read. Great voice, good writing and so funny. I didn't want it to end! What an amazing woman.