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Gold Dust Lounge Union Square San Francisco Print Beautifully Framed - $35 (glen park)
Mission near Bosworth
condition:
excellent
size / dimensions:
15½" x 12½"
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Signed and dated 2006 by the artist.
Frame size: 15½" x 12½"
Image size: 6¾" x 4¾"
Very appropriately framed in a rustic gold wood frame and purpoe textured mat with a gold accent under glass. Paper backing and hanging hardware attached; ready to hang.
In excellent condition.
If this piece is listed it is still available for sale.
Also available in Santa Rosa when arranged in advance.
ABOUT THE GOLD DUST LOUNGE
The address 247 Powell Street hosted various bars going back to 1918 when it was the Techau Tavern. It was purportedly a gin joint during Prohibition that was raided several times. When Prohibition ended in 1933, 247 Powell was a bar again under different names and owners during and after World War II In 1947, 247 Powell was renamed the Techau Tavern. The bar and ceiling of the Gold Dust remained from this Techau time period. It became Bustles & Beaus in 1960, a burlesque spot.
In 1965 the Bovis family opened the Gold Dust Lounge. The brothers made the Gold Dust a saloon — no food, just booze — which attracted the downtown after-work crowd, along with notable guests such as Lee Marvin and Steve McQueen, and many tourists. When Jim Bovis took over, there was a gold-plated pole for fun-loving ladies and a painting on the ceiling with semi-naked nymphs and cherubs.
The Gold Dust Lounge was evicted and closed in 2012. There was a public campaign to save it but it was unsuccessful. In 2013 the Gold Dust Lounge then reopened in a 3,100-square-foot spot at 165 Jefferson Street in Fisherman's Wharf and then closed definitively in 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/facing-last-call-fans-rally-for-a-storied-saloon.html