The Green Parrot Cafe

Richard Alfred Leckner, ran away to sea in May, 1917 as he was missing his brother Theo who had gone off to fight in Gallipoli. He got a job as a cabin boy and the kitchen hand on the cargo ship ‘Tahiti” and after four years travelling the Pacific Islands to San Francisco and return he jumped ship in San Francisco at the age of 18. He got a job in a Restaurant at the corner of Market & Farrelly Streets near Union Square and worked his way up to Manager in 1924.