In March 1983, the late Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was hosted by then President Ronald Reagan. In her toast at the dinner, held in her honor, she dryly commented on the weather: It was foggy. Here are her preeminent San Francisco guests now.
The backdrop for dinner was the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park. In attendance were several notables, many of whom have since died — such as former Stanford University President Donald Kennedy, baseball star Joe DiMaggio, cartoonist Charles Schulz and 49ers' coach Bill Walsh.
Today, as Britain bids their monarch a final farewell, we check in on the legacies still being forged by the pioneering and preeminent people on the queen’s guest list in The City all those years ago.Willie Mays, 91, played center field for the New York Giants from 1951 to 1973. Between 1952 and 1954 he took a hiatus from baseball to serve with the United State Army in the Korean War. In his 1954 return, Mays won the National League MVP title.
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