Members TownsendPLocke Posted April 16, 2013 Members Share Posted April 16, 2013 Neat list of San Francisco Gay bars that are no longer there. When I first started "running away"to SF in 1975 most of these were still around. You will notice that there were Gay bars in many areas of the city-you were not restricted to the Castro or SoMa I had a LOT of fun back in the day! Gay life now is a pale shadow of the fun we used to have https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=204308129084127659047.0004ae197e7ef9d21644a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=37.758844,-122.42642&spn=0.094288,0.052295&source=embed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hoover42 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Very cool. I visited San Francisco for the first time in in 1976 then again in 1980 and I remember a number of those bars along Polk street (remember all those hustlers that used to hang out there?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TownsendPLocke Posted April 18, 2013 Author Members Share Posted April 18, 2013 Oh boy do I remember Polk Street! I lived very close to PolkStrausse (in the Tenderloin,,,home of many bars of Ill Repute) between 1982-1989 and staggered home many a morning. I lived right across from a gay bar owned by a drag"queen" named Francine. She was a delicate 6 foot five inch flower who cussed,drank and spit like a sailor, I picked up Rick Donnovan in that bar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
