We reported in November that the Condor Club in North Beach was trying to become the first strip club in San Francisco to enter the city’s traditional business registry, a distinction that applies to businesses 30 or older and makes them eligible. Receive special grants to keep these historically important businesses open. But at a hearing on Nov. is a place where “employment or promotion depends on sexual parameters”. “” The committee asked Condor to come up with a “framework” to advance the status of women beyond dancers and bartenders before the SF Office of Small Business hears their plea further.
Apparently, Condor did just that. The Small Business Office said they approved the application on November 16, and now Eater SF reports that Condor Club was officially added to the SF Legacy Business Registry on Monday, December 19.
Condor Club was one of four businesses added to the registry on Monday. “The other three new locations are Xin Lun Ting Café in Chinatown, Royal Bakery at the Excelsior Hotel and Peking Restaurant in the Sunset District,” Eater SF reported.
According to SFGate, District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin said in endorsement of Condor’s Legacy Business app, “Condor acts as a sort of gateway between San Francisco’s financial district and the nightlife of North Beach. [Carol] The Doda and Condor Club were the foundation of San Francisco’s iconic reputation in the mid to late 1960s, and Ms. Until his death in 2015, Doda was a world-renowned fixture around North Beach. “
As we noted in our 2016 profile, the Condor Club was the first club in the US to feature topless dancing.It was 1964, and a then-26-year-old Carol Doda was performing topless, and every other gentlemen’s club in North Beach followed suit. (It didn’t hurt that the Republican convention came to town that summer.) Much Dar was arrested (and acquitted) in 1965, author Tom Wolfe wrote in his 1968 book pump room gang Doda is “San Francisco’s largest resource for tourism.”