Sally Stanford

Sally Stanford (née Mabel Janice Busby,[1] and political pseudonym Marsha Owen; May 5, 1903 – February 1, 1982)[2] was an American madam, restaurateur, city council member, and a former mayor of Sausalito, California.

[3] From 1940 to 1949, she was madam of a bordello at 1144 Pine Street in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco,[3] in a house designed by architect Stanford White.

[3] San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote "the United Nations was founded at Sally Stanford's whorehouse" because of the number of delegates to the organization's 1945 San Francisco founding conference who were Stanford's customers;[3] many actual, if informal, negotiating sessions took place in the brothel's living room.

Seated at the main table were Senator Edward Kennedy, Mayor Joseph Alioto, attorney Melvin Belli and the newly elected California Jaycees[clarification needed] president Drew Frohlich.

The runoff poured to a long knee height basin that reads "Have a drink on Leland" for the dogs visiting the site.