From A Self-Guided Tour of Saroyan’s San Francisco by Dori Myer "This part of Turk street is in the Tenderloin District, always considered one of the city’s sketchier locales where gamblers, prostitutes, and thieves roamed the streets. This was also a fun place for a young man to go. In the early 1930s, Saroyan spent much of his time on Turk Street. It looks too different today to even compare, but some of the alleyways remain, where you can imagine illegal gambling houses might pop up. This is featured in the story, “The Turk Street Gamblers,” in the collection I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I’m Not So Sure (p. 77), Sons Come and Go, Mothers Hang In Forever (pgs. 66, 73, 172), Chance Meetings (p. 76), and Obituaries (p. 82)"