Juanita Musson

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Juanita Musson , actually Juanita Lois Hudspeth (born October 16, 1923 near Collinsville , Texas , † February 26, 2011 in Sonoma , California ), was an American landlady and patroness .

Life

Musson grew up in Texas and most of her youth in the American Southwest. When she was 21, she married a soldier named Richard Musson in Wichita Falls, Texas. After the war ended, the couple settled in Sausalito (California) and lived there until their divorce in 1957.

Juanita Musson opened a restaurant in Sausalito, which was soon followed by others in Sonoma County . These restaurants became known beyond the region for their unconventional and extravagant landlady. She was tall, overweight, and very extroverted, and always wore a brightly colored mu'umu'u . In addition, animals such as dogs, cats, monkeys, goats and others romped about in their restaurants.

Although Musson had to close one of her bars again and again due to economic problems and her naivety, she opened another one a short time later. She was known to celebrities that she also entertained in her pubs, such as Marlon Brando , Joseph Cotten , The Kingston Trio , Robert Mitchum , Smokey Smothers and many others. After his Six Gallery reading, Kenneth Rexroth chose one of her bars for further readings and some representatives of the San Francisco Renaissance worked for her or met there regularly.

In the summer of 1982 Musson closed their last pub and settled in Sonoma. There she lived in very modest circumstances and was dependent on social assistance. In 2002 friends and former guests started a fundraising campaign for her, and with the proceeds, Musson was able to move to an old people's home in Agua Caliente ( Sonoma County ). On February 26, 2011, Juanita Musson died of a stroke at Sonoma Valley Hospital . At her last will, she was cremated and her ashes scattered in the bay off Sausalito (part of the San Francisco Bay ).

literature

  • Herb Caen : Herb Caen's guide to San Francisco . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1957.
  • Sally Hayto-Keeva: Juanita! The Madcap Adventures of a Legendary Restaurateur . Sagn Books, Vineburg, Calif. 1990, ISBN 0-9626-2959-6 .
  • Bill Morgan: The Beat Generation in San Francisco. A literary tour . City Lights Books, San Francisco 2003, ISBN 0-87286-417-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ with an interview with Herb Caen.
personal data
SURNAME Musson, Juanita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hudspeth, Juanita Lois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landlady and patroness
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1923
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2011
Place of death Sonoma