In the early 1950s, when Mona’s 440 Club was sold by Mona and Jimmie Sargeant to Ann Dee she, rather naturally, renamed it Ann’s. Ann’s 440 Club A newspaper ad for Ann’s 440 Club, as seen in ‘The San Francisco Examiner’ on April 30, 1960. Here are five that are particularly noteworthy. Finding a place “where girls be boys” from that era prompted me to wonder: How many other fantastic little lesbian venues existed in Bay Area history that few of us know anything about today? In the course of that research I also discovered Mona’s 440 Club - a bar for lesbians, crossdressers and genderfluid folks that was active in the 1940s. I found some gems in the archives - a spider-filled tavern in North Beach and a lawless basement bar on the edge of Chinatown, among them. (Kirn Vintage Stock/ Corbis via Getty Images)īack in March, thanks to my ongoing obsession with the city’s dives, I decided to compile a list of five supremely entertaining bars from San Francisco history. A glorious gathering of lesbians, circa 1910.
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