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- FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
- BARCHIVE :: THE LN PUB AND OTHER LOST GAY DENS
- SF GAY HISTORY
FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
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BARCHIVE :: THE LN PUB AND OTHER LOST GAY DENS
Its heyday as a gay fern bar the early 1970's, after openg around 1968, gave way to perds of both more preppy, and more leather-y clientele, as Ellis told the Bay Area Reporter back 1989. The Ln Pub was not alone this neighborhood as a gay bar, bee the Alamo Square and Upper Fillmore areas long had a gay enclave all their own and a no of homo hangouts anchored by this and the nearby Alta Plaza (2301 Fillmore), which changed hands 1999 and soon turned to a noodle bar, and now an Indian rtrant. Last year the BAR spoke to a uple of longtime gay rints who equented both bars, as well as JJ's Piano Bar, which opened 1987.
SF GAY HISTORY
But most of the bars' longtime clientele would not live to see the new lennium, and by around 2005 The Ln Pub was pretty much domated by young straight people, spe still beg gay-owned.
As has been talked about a lot the last several years, neighborhood gay bars all over the cy, outsi the Castro and SoMa, have died off for a variety of reasons both bee of real tate prsur, dwdlg crowds, and the rise of cellphone apps that negate the need for neighborhood bars as pickup spots.