The nicest people in the world, meeting each week for breakfast, friendship and enlightenment.

The Golden Gate Breakfast Club was formed at a meeting of 19 men on August 21, 1946. Originally, the Club was named "the San Francisco Breakfast Club", and its founder was a most interesting personality named Frank Beckmann. Frank was an author, businessman, lecturer, photographer, traveler, and speech instructor. The original Breakfast Club members were students in Frank's speech course, and one of the original purposes of the Club was to give the Club's members opportunities to improve their public speaking skills. Frank was a noted teacher of public speaking, and his most famous student was former Governor Pat Brown.