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b are the rumors that you're thinking of selling the place, correct? Well we're thinking of selling but only for one reason because we feel that we need to move from body Broadway as it's become since we've been here for 10 years first we have to find

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a new location to move our gay 90s into. We can't just sell and then be out in the cold. But definitely know we're thinking of In fact May the fourth will be celebrating 25 years in business and we hope to be celebrating another 25 years after

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that San Francisco wouldn't be the same without you. And well, we kind of try to tell ourselves that we're part of the nostalgia of San Francisco. I love san Francisco always have and we just kind of like to be a part of it and we have

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no thought of ever not being a part of it. You say that broadway in the north Beach club area is becoming a body. I think the word translate that well if you want it in the present day english, I would say that broadway as it now

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is with the various types of entertainment that have moved in here. I would say it's somewhat of a cesspool. It's not what I would call entertainment as it was in the days past. It. Uh it's entertainment of a sort and I guess everyone has their own

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taste, but I just feel that our family type entertainment just doesn't sit here anymore. Well, yes, what else? That's the thing and the various type of people that it attracts on the street. It just kind of makes it so that the family people that we have

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just don't like to walk on the street anymore. So this is not good for our business. So we feel we should just move away to some other place where that won't be like Girardelli Square. We'd love to go to Girardelli Square since we have gone topless

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for our fashion show luncheons. This has created such a demand in our club that we were forced to put in a topless revue at night. And once again, our business has been very gratifying in the evening. There was a rather controversial article about you and the

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hungry eye and the way the hungry eye is doing and one of the local papers the other day. Any comment on that. Yes, I would like to say here and now for the record and have done with it. I was speaking generally of my clubs. I

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wasn't pinpointing the hungry, I might. The questions asked me were in general, what's happening in nightclubs and I repeat a statement I've often made that I think nightclubs are going through a long funeral since prohibition days and a new form must take over to replace this.

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We must have a place for live entertainers to perform. You have no objection to the topic. None whatsoever. I think it's being overrated and over talked about about indecency. The people that do go to topless our everyday business people, they're enjoying it and if they're enjoying

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it, I think it's a form of entertainment that should stay, it should be an integral part of all of all the entertainment that's going on in san Francisco. I think it belongs and it's to be here. And I think that people are over doing it when

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they say, well, isn't that terrible what's happened on broadway? It is not terrible. It's wonderful. I I enjoy it. Uh speaking to Topless Benny but Fano who of course is probably san Francisco's best known artists and sitting here next to you, Benny from an aesthetic point

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of view, From the artist point of view, What do you think about the Topless? The female form? The only objection that I have about the topless that they've got, I'd like to see the nude completely because after all, what's better than the than the nude is

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the most beautiful thing. I think it's a sin to dress according to God because God made it. I'm with only he wants to do it all in marble though. Thank you very much. Thank you. Topless is a fairly well established thing in the North beach area.

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Now, do you think that it's ever going to go out of style? I don't think sex will ever go out of style, especially female. You think that people who frequented clubs will become inured to the charms of the waitresses and we'll want some other type of

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entertainment in the near future Broadway were the only club in North Beach with the waitresses were still fighting the abc with this and I expect it may take some time yet for us to get a favorable decision. But as far as Topless itself goes, you can

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take a look around the street at night and you'll find more and more women, husbands bringing their wives, their relatives down into this area to see the topless. It's all that bad. These women wouldn't be on the streets and I mean well dressed, the fur coat

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crowd. What do you think about the flavor of North Beach in general? Do you think it's changing the flavor much, Much to the better. Really. The, there's a good police control on the streets now. The crowds are more mature. Uh, we don't have so many kids

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running around anymore. Like they did maybe 10 or 15 years ago. You don't have these big gangs and rumbles that they used to have. No, I think North beach is growing up getting a sophistication