Condor Club
The Condor Club (also known as The Condor Night Club) was a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco. The club opened in 1964.
The club was located at the corner of Broadway and Columbus. The large lit sign in front of the club featured a picture of Carol Doda. Carol was the first topless entertainer there and the most famous. Her premiere topless dance came on the night of June 19, 1964.
The club went "bottomless", with the dancers performing fully nude, on September 3, 1969. In 1972, bottomless nude dancing became illegal in establishments that served alcohol in California, but Carol Doda continued dancing there topless until 1986.
A bizarre death occurred at the Condor Club in November 23, 1983. Bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfriend, exotic dancer Theresa Hill, decided after hours to have sexual intercourse on the famous white piano on which Carol Doda made her entrance, being lowered from the ceiling by cables. They accidentally hit the "on" switch, and the piano rapidly rose to the ceiling, trapping the couple. Ferrozzo was asphyxiated, while Hill survived only because she was thinner than her companion.
The club closed in 2000, but soon reopened as a sports bar/bistro. Between 2005 and 2007, it was Andrew Jaeger's House of Seafood & Jazz, a branch of the owner's original restaurant in New Orleans. However, in August 2007, it once again became the Condor Club, once more featuring go-go dancers. The current Condor Club is branded as "San Francisco's Original Gentlemen's Club.
Sources
- ↑ styrous.blogspot.com
See also [ Condor publicity ]
External links
- https://condorsf.com/
- styrous.blogspot.com
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