CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT -- IS THERE LIFE AFTER CALIFORNIA?

(Did You Sleep With the Models)

From the Russian River to San Diego, Mandate doted on California. And so, presumably, did many readers. Andy Nyberg, writing about his adopted city, explainded that San Francisco's "reputation for tolerance and bawdiness probably began in the Gold Rush era when hordes of unattached men poured into the city. Their all-male dances are credited with starting the hankie code -- handkerchiefs stuffed into back pockets denoted which partner was 'male' and which 'female.' "