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The City

North Beach of San Francisco

The City:
Started off as the Cabaret, a gay club. Huge 2 story club just off touristy North Beach. Not best area for a gay club. DJ booth was a 12 foot jukebox player. Custom lighting systems, one of the first to use infinity mirrors. As The City it started catering to a mostly straight crowd, but it was gay owned and managed, and since this was the time of Saturday Night Fever, it was packed with mostly straight locals but during its heyday it was a destination club for bus loads of Midwesterners checking out the disco scene. Cabaret on first floor had name acts including Pointer Sisters. Many Casablanca artists appeared here and it hosted many record industry private parties.

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samsj
on Oct 30, 05 | 9:08 am



Reader Comments on The City

 

I remember going here in 1976 and 1977 and dancing non stop until closing. It was a mixed crowd of gay and straight. I remember the huge jukebox dj booth and the lighting above the dance floor with red and yellow lights going in every direction and four huge mirror balls spinning below it. I would drive from santa rosa just to dance there. I remember it had a huge wooden dance floor and elevated seating next to it. There was also a jewelry store and restaurant I believe...those were the days!!
 
Posted Feb 02, 06 | 7:14 pm by kevin pierce

I remember going to The City when it was THE place to go in San Francisco. Sylvester had returned from Europe and was playing in the Cabaret downstairs. I think he had the piano player from the Cockettes playing piano for him. He was mainly doing torch songs during that period. If my memory serves me correctly, the club was controversial for asking women for THREE pieces of i.d. which was seen as discriminatory toward women. Cabaret was downstairs and you walked through it, which had it's own bar, tables and stage, to get to the staircase toward the back of this room which led to the large dance floor upstairs.
 
Posted Dec 29, 08 | 7:18 pm by sylvan


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