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Two broken toilets were among several objects that crashed through the bar’s windows in the early years, as working class Bernal denizens didn’t take too kindly to a gay bar in their midst in the 1970s. Over the years the place has taken on an easy-going, neighborhood character, and the quirky patio with its toilet bowl planters has a story, too. Named for an obscure early 1960s film that featured Barbara Stanwyck as a lesbian madame, the bar began life in the East Bay before relocating first to North Beach in 1968 (Janis Joplin used to hang out there, as did some of the women who danced topless in nearby clubs), and ultimately to this space in Bernal in 1977, where original owners Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White lived conveniently upstairs. This charming dive out in the wilds of Bernal Heights is still lesbian-owned, and if it’s not exactly a lesbian bar, it’s still an essential place. The latest CDC guidance is here find a COVID-19 vaccination site here. Health experts consider dining out to be a high-risk activity for the unvaccinated the latest data about the delta variant indicates that it may pose a low-to-moderate risk for the vaccinated, especially in areas with substantial transmission.
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For SF’s queer community, it’s all about monthly themed parties, often held at locations that are straight most other nights.īelow, find a selection of the most essential drinking spots for LGBTQ crowds around the Bay, listed geographically from West to East. When it comes to dancing, you can find some at a couple of spots (and the “White Ho”) on a regular basis, but big dance clubs are now a thing of the past. Meanwhile, Polk Street, where an explosion of gay bars began in the mid-1960s and continued through the 1990s, has only one sole survivor from that era, The Cinch. Two neighborhoods where gay nightlife thrived in the 1970s, the Castro and SoMa, are still home to the majority of San Francisco gay bars, and Oakland is home to what is likely the longest continuously operating gay bar in the country, The White Horse, which officially opened in 1933 at the end of Prohibition. We’re getting the word out to travelers and it’s working pretty well.While longtime queer spaces may be disappearing in San Francisco and other cities, queer people in most of America, including in the Bay Area, understand that actual, physical social spaces are still vital to the culture. “We know that motorcycles are still going to be our base, but we’re opening it up to much more. “Now our motto is the best ride/drive experience in the West.” The 40-acre property also includes 22 cabins, which are being renovated and will likely be available for rent in 2020, Ammon said. Next year, a large parking area will be built to accommodate bigger crowds and a two-acre picnic ground will be opened for events, Ammon said. The business has focused its recent advertising on motorcycle groups and dealerships, but will be expanding soon to jeep and car clubs. “They come in and grab something quick and just as quick as they came in, they’re back on their bikes and are gone,” he said.
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He said the business has established a grab & go area with pre-made sandwiches for those riders. “It’s a perfect day ride to come out here, have a burger, then head back.”Īmmon said the place caters to all types of motorcyclists, including those who ride sports bikes and like to race up Palomar Mountain on weekends. “It’s an hour and half from Orange County and an hour and half from San Diego,” Crouch said. They’d make you feel like you were the only one in the house.”Ĭrouch and Shelby agreed the business is perfectly located. We came up here for these (he said pointing to the photo of Stockalper and her mom) because they’d make you feel like a million bucks. “They were only open on Saturdays and Sundays and they’d close if it was raining. “I came up here all the time when it was the old Hideout,” Crouch said. Ammon said a memorial for Stockalper and her mother, Felice Howard-Vinnard, will be held later this year. Beloved by customers, Stockalper was murdered in 2015, along with her mother, inside their Warner Springs home by an estranged boyfriend who then killed himself. She and Crouch and another friend were visiting Josie’s Hideout Saloon in part to give the business a framed, blown-up photograph of a former Hideout bartender, Sadie Stockalper. Together, they own San Diego Harley Davidson. Shelby is married to New York Myke Shelby, a one-time candidate for San Diego mayor. (John Gibbins/The San Diego Union-Tribune)