It was the secret Prohibition-era bar that got John Murphy’s attention.
It was 1997, and Mr. Murphy and his wife, Paula Key, were house shopping in the Pacific Heights section of San Francisco. When Ms. Key returned from viewing a house, she told her husband about the bar on the ground floor. “You press a button…and what looks like a paneled wall accordions open,” said Mr. Murphy, a 67-year-old author and one of the founders of for-profit education company t… (View original article)