The club opened originally as a gay speakeasy in 1929 at 408 Stockton Street. Hoodline had a history piece about the club back in 2016, and now 24 years after its closure - upon which North Beach icon Laurence Ferlinghetti remarked "What a drag." - ABC 7 has a new piece remembering Finoccio's as the drag club that existed "long before Rupaul's Drag Race." That club was Finocchio's, and from 1936 to 1999 it played host to some of the greatest drag performers - or "male actresses" as proprietress Eve Finocchio liked to call them - that the country had ever known. And this was before anyone even called them drag queens, or thought that going to a drag show was something people could do. The place gained nationwide notoriety, and became a go-to destination for tourists, sailors, and celebrities alike. Once upon a time, there was a cabaret-style nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach that featured a cast of female impersonators.
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