From A Self-Guided Tour of Saroyan’s San Francisco by Dori Myer "In 1927, Saroyan was the manager of this Postal Telegraph Office, the youngest branch manager in the country. To him this meant that he was free to roam the streets of San Francisco during the day with no oversight. But being the boss didn’t suit him and he returned to clerking at other branches. This experience features heavily in the story, “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8” in The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories, “A Writer’s Declaration” in The Whole Voyald and Other Stories (p.8), and Places Where I’ve Done Time (Chapter 23)" Today, the building is the location of Local Tap, a bar and grill.