Condor Club
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The Condor Night Club is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco,[1] in California, USA. The club opened in 1964.[2][3]
The club is located at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue.[4] The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of Carol Doda. The sign had red lights on the image of her breasts. She was the first topless entertainer there and the most famous. Her première topless dance occurred on the evening of June 19, 1964.[2]
The club went bottomless (i.e. the dancers began performing fully nude) on September 3, 1969.[5] In 1972, bottomless nude dancing became illegal in establishments that served alcohol in California, but Carol Doda continued dancing there topless until 1986.
There was a bizarre death at the Condor Club in November 1983, the bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfiend, Theresa Hill, an exotic dancer at 4 am decided it would be fun to make love on top the on top of the famous white piano that Carol Doda made her entrance from the ceiling lowered by cables. The lift was accidentally turned on, hitting the ceiling, killing Jimmy, the bouncer. Theresa lived the few inches of difference between the bouncer's body and the dancer.[6]
The club closed for a while in 2000 but reopened as a sports bar/bistro.[7] From 2005 to 2007 it was called Andrew Jaeger's House of Seafood & Jazz, a scion of the proprietor's original restaurant in New Orleans. In August 2007, it again became the Condor and once more started featuring go-go dancers.
See also
- Lusty Lady – a former chain of peep show establishments with two locations, one in the North Beach district of San Francisco and one in downtown Seattle
- Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre – A San Francisco striptease club
- Regal Show World – a defunct adult business in San Francisco
References
- ↑ Nudity, Noise Pay Off in Bay Area Night Clubs, Los Angeles Times, February 14, 1965, Page G5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 California Solons May Bring End To Go-Go-Girl Shows In State, Panama City News, September 15, 1969, Page 12A.
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- ↑ Silicon made topless dancing blossom, Chicago Daily Herald, April 28, 1982, Page 21.
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- ↑ Associated Press November 24, 1983
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