Celebrating a 48 year marriage and a 78th birthday in grand style

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SAN FRANCISCO – PACIFIC CAFE

Liz and Lee Heidhues – August 17th, 2025

Hard to believe. We’re celebrating a remarkable fete. 48 years married and a 78th birthday.

Actually the relationship goes back much further.

Raised three blocks from each other. Only meeting at San Francisco State during the tumultuous late ’60s. Surviving the ongoing unrest and making way through the four month student strike we bonded and have experienced life in all its joy and bitterness.

As the old saying goes “The People United Will Never be Defeated.”

We took a walk through the neighborhood we have lived nearly 50 years and enjoyed a good meal and companionship at the nearby Pacific Cafe. A local treasure since 1974.

Liz and Lee together at The Pacific Cafe
Lee beams at Pacific Cafe co-owner Frank Gundry delivers a special birthday treat
Liz, leg aloft glass of wine in hand, shows off her special sox worn specially for the occasion
Liz brandishes her carrot and enjoys the feast before her.
Maureen, the co-owner of Pacific Cafe, deftly handles plates full of delicious sea food to the waiting patrons.
The hard working chefs in the Pacific Cafe kitchen
A wait staff member readies a table for the next guests at Pacific Cafe
The busy scene on a Saturday evening.
Chef Specials on the menu board. Maureen, a wait staff member and Frank serve up the guests.
Liz at the entrance.
Home on birthday Sunday. Lee shows off the special card created by Liz as Bendi looks down from the back porch fence.
The perfect tune for Pacific Cafe. J’Attrendai by Rina Ketty on a CD purchased by Liz at the nearby Legion of Honor
Liz and Lee made it official as Judge Ollie Marie-Victorie signed the marriage certificate in her chambers at City Hall – 8.17.1977

Top photo: Liz in black and white pose at The Pacific Cafe. A throwback art style to the 1960’s

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