Nickname #6 -- September 18, 2011

San Francisco Union Labor Party Mayor P H (Pin Head) McCarthy is seen in this image from the 25-December-1910 San Francisco Call, with Madam Luisa Tettrazini after her Christmas Eve performance at Lotta's Fountain: http://cablecarguy.blogspot.com/2010/12/tetrazzini-100-years-december-24-2010.html

I suppose anyone who goes by the initials P H runs the risk of being called Pin Head.

Tetrazzini 100 Years -- December 24, 2010

On 24-December-1910, opera singer Madam Luisa Tettrazini performed at the intersection of Geary, Market and Kearny, before an enormous crowd. "A conservative judges the crowd at 90,000. There were those who said 250,000 persons crowded to hear the incomparable Tetrazzini sing her love of San Francisco." The event was sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle, which had its headquarters at the intersection, but other newspapers chose to describe the location as Lotta's Fountain. This image is from the 25-December-1910 San Francisco Call. She poses at the event with Mayor PH (Pin Head) McCarthy.