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Bartenders at Eddie Rickenbackers fern bar in San Francisco with Tiffany lamps and motorcycle tire on ceiling (c. 2008). One of the first fern bars was the original T.G.I. Friday's on the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue in a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of New York City, where many young single adults lived at the time.
For the fern bars, the necessity was “how to meet a woman to get a date or get laid.” That helps to explain what motivated Alan Stillman to open the first TGI Fridays in New York City’s ...
The Tool Box was a leather bar for gay men in San Francisco that operated from 1962 to 1971 on the east corner of 4th Street and Harrison Street. [1] It was the first leather bar in the South of Market, [2] and a meeting spot where influential personalities of the early San Francisco leather scene gathered.
Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco were some of the earliest businesses during the formation of the city. Many of the first businesses to spring up in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era (1848–1855) supported the influx of new men, including bars and saloons, [1] breweries, [2] horse racing tracks, [3] and others forms of entertainment.
Twin Peaks Tavern is an American historic gay bar.It first opened in 1935 and is located at 401 Castro Street in the Castro District in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It is one of the most famous bars in the Castro and features prominent oversized windows that were unveiled in 1972, something uncommonly seen in older gay bars. [2]
After a four-year closure, an iconic San Francisco bar has a new home. One of the city’s oldest gay bars, The Stud, closed early on during the pandemic due to a lack of revenue. Saturday evening ...
The Condor Club nightclub is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco, California [1] The club became famous in 1964 as the first fully topless nightclub in America, featuring the dancer Carol Doda wearing a monokini
The Caldron (often misspelled Cauldron) was a sex club for gay men [1] located at 953 Natoma Street in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. [2] [3] It opened in 1980 and closed in 1984. [1] It was called "the epitome of the uninhibited, abandoned, 'sleazy' sex club." [4]