tonight we're remembering the late san francisco columnist herb cain. n who wrote about the city he loved for over 60 years.over the years many of cain's anecdote came from the time he spent in north beach. first at places like enrico then the wash bag as he called it. years later, mackenzie walked through the area and told us how the area changed. >> reporter: of course some had seen the end of north beach in 1969 when enrico banducci was forced to close the hungry eye. the club that had given breaks to barbara strisand as well as a new hip comedians led by mert sal and lenny bruce. at that time, banducci blamed the high cost of doing business. >> it's not very feasible to sit there with a $500 a week act and trying to discover it and still have expenses of $8,000 a day to keep the doors open. you can go broke very quickly. >> reporter: ever since the turn of the century when italian immigrants picked it as their neighborhood because it was the sunniest part of town. they named their boats after their wives or girlfriends or their hometowns. in the earl