BREAKING!!!! San Francisco's Iconic Nob Hill Theatre to CLOSE in August!

Everything is shuttering in San Francisco. It's been happening for years.

My first job in SF 1972. I was just a kid.

Just read about this morning, it is sad to see these institutions go, there are few places like it left in America.

I remember I was really scared to go in there the first time I went. That makes me laugh now. I’m guessing it was 1978 or ‘79. Even then the place seemed to be on its last legs. But it could also be fun.

Am I really that old now?

I wonder how much they got for the property. I'm betting they'll be able to live in the utmost comfort on the proceeds.

They look like a nice older couple, and 36 years is nothing to sneeze at. I am sure that they will miss the business even though they will be happy to be back in PS.

Palm Springs really is the go to place for gay men who have done well and made a good living isn't it?

Will this type of venue open somewhere else in San Francisco or any other city for that matter?

It had the ugliest, skankiest most low rent dancers on earth this past decade.

I would pay them to get dressed and go home.

Back in the day, I’ve jacked off Danny Sommers, Travis Wade, and other porn stars whose name escapes me at the Nob Hill. And I’ve had a lotta fun in the video booths when I was visiting San Francisco.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

I remember when I was in the Navy back in 1969 and stationed on SF. I snuck into the Nob Hill one night to see Song of the Loon. One of my particularly bullying petty officers (although with a delightful sense of humor) said there was a guy on the fantail of my ship passing out tickets to Fruit of the Loom, and I told him there was a guy in my division who wanted one. I had no idea the Nob Hill was still open.

I believe a straight couple owned it originally.

Who will pay to have the area sanitized?

At one time in the past did they have the space just to the right of it open and put on live sex shows? Their was a door inside the theater counter that went into the other room. It was not the theater area. I was in a place years ago that did that but never could remember where it was. The show was in a caged area with bleachers. You could JO but not touch anyone else setting next to you.

I went there once when I was 17. I saw Boys in the Sand and Bijou.

It was the golden age of homosexuality.

Nothing stays open in San Francisco anymore. The delusional queens here still think it is an envious place to be as a gay man.

The only people who are happy to be here are techies who get paid very well to afford living here and be able to work in the field. Only reason to be there these days.

The rest of the city is a bunch of surly and resentful working class poor either planning their exit or realize that as immigrant California is probably as good its gonna get and LA is just too hot and equally cost-prohibitive.

True story.

Don't miss the big auction!

Lots of knob polishing at the Nob.

There won't be a dry seat in the house that day.

Just what every living room needs, a glory hole panel from the Nob Hill.

I'm a Canadian. Did I miss anything?

r20 I plan to buy one and then take it on Antiques Roadshow.

Nob Hill Theater.

The ugliest slob with gross pustules and a femmy voice LOVED going there! HE PROUDLY WALKED OUT OF THERE WITH A BLAST OF SPERM ON HIS FACE!

I had a coworker who used to dance there. I never revealed his secret to anyone.

Yeah I saw a few live sex shows there in my day.

"In addition to four-seat rows of theater seats ...the owners will also be selling the furnishings of their apartment."

These cushioned seats are a veritable DNA (Dicks-N-Ass) Petri dish.

Any videos of these live shows or what inside looked like anywhere?

Is one or the other of the owners the author of the Ungrateful Niece threads?

They're planning on filming a movie there right before the closing. Apparently you have to sign a release if you want to be in the audience. And it's quite pricey.

"The Finale."

OOPS! Wrong link.

DL Fave Alam Wernik will be there!

Too bad to see it close. I went many times in the 90s. The sex shows were just a warm-up. Then you could go looking for a hot guy , and during lunch hours all the closeted married men were there.

[quote]They're planning on filming a movie there right before the closing. Apparently you have to sign a release if you want to be in the audience. And it's quite pricey.

Movie...heh heh hehe heheeeee....

I went just a few years ago and it was deader than these two will be in a decade or so.

Good for them for getting out.

Had some hot times there when I snuck in before I was 18. Remember coming home for Thanksgiving once and got fucked raw by one of the (then) hot dancers raw during a slow show.

Man to be young and careless again.

That theater had a lot of shootings.

R35 As another sexagenarian I resent your prediction!

Woody Fox is the only hot guy in the line up. The others are meh. Do they really have to have Adam Killian on? He’s gonna kill the show.

I remember Ricky Sinz performing there, he asked me if I wanted to hang out afterword and we went back to his hotel, he was married I believe but was also into guys, we swapped loads and I went home..

[quote]Remember coming home for Thanksgiving once and got fucked raw by one of the (then) hot dancers raw during a slow show.

Oh you Romantic, you.

That neighborhood needs a mattress store, a Starbucks and a poke place. Hopefully when they level the theater will be room to accommodate these new businesses.

R37, you mean semen loads or guns?

The real estate agents have already begun showing the property to perspective buyers.

It was like playing the Palace.

it was an amazing and fabulous place for years. best men around went there, and they paid and put up stars to come in for special shows. Josh Weston headlined for a long time. his shows were legendary with smoke and special fx. …. place was SRO when the big ones came in. All the biggies were there over the years. fun shower shows!!! late seventy and eightys were its hey day. bigga da bill...bigga da thrill.

Campus theatre was farther into the tenderloin. they had downstairs with the bleacher thing . I was there the night a patron quietly died in his seat of heart attach....oy vetch. cops ev where... often the stars got fucked in the rear of the theatre where they mingled....joey Stefano let anybody do anything to him....yea!

yay SF....great memories, now its all on line..... still a terrific city. filled with tourists galore ! they aint dumb.

a dancer at the nob used to film many shows. hope he puts them on line to sale or whatever....CLASSIC

SOMEONE SHOULD WRITE A BOOK BOUT IT ALL. they had a hot ! str8 manager for yrs....so well managed when he there.

I've always liked to believe that being a gay man in SF between Stonewall and the AIDS crisis was a wonderful time.

I was a child during those years, but I can imagine it.

WAS AMAZING. U HAVE NO IDEA....

The theater is planning to go out with a bang.

"We have lots of great events" during July and August, said Luce.

Those include a circle jerk with the boys of Nob Hill Theater July 12, a circle jerk with Dante Martin and Santos July 26, and a circle jerk with the management team July 27-28.

"Most of all we will miss our wonderful customers," said Hoover. "People come here from all over the world and tell us they haven't seen anything like this anywhere."

One of the club's dancers, Matt Converse, a 59-year-old gay man, said the closure is "an end of an era."

Converse, a full-time writer whose third novel, "Obsexion," will be published by Encompass Ink in July, said working at the Nob Hill Theatre "was one of the best jobs I've ever had."

went there on m y first trip to SF I in the late 70's, had a good time swapping loads with a hot sailor.

^^Went there on my first trip to SF ^^ damn auto correct!

Where will men go for knobs now?

[quote] That neighborhood needs a mattress store, a Starbucks and a poke place.

No city needs a poke place