The Carlins of West Portal ran three blue collar saloons in San Francisco from the late 1930s through the early 60s . There was a Denny’s Barrel House on the Embarcadero, on Dolores in the Mission , and in the rough, untamed heart of the Fillmore. Peak drinking hours were mid-day from 11 to 3. That was the drinking life in the era of union labor and ports and factories. Mr. Dennis Carlin the son, now 77 resides in the house where his Irish parents raised him and his three sisters, middle aged children and young grandchildren in the main still reside in the City. Carlin’s father, Denny Senior, came here from a remote township in County Tyrone in 1910, and his mother came from Sligo in 1920. “She wanted us all to be musicians” he says. They were called “far-downs” in the SF Irish community because they did not come from Cork or Kerry. Denny Senior and his identical twin brother did not receive any formal educ...