He ran the business until he couldn’t, handing its management over to another company for some time before persuading Luce and Hoover to take it off his hands in 2010. Nob Hill Theatre owners Larry Hoover, right, and Gary Luce stand in front of their theatre on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in San Francisco. In many ways, Nob Hill Theatre, which closed Sunday, Aug. 19, after 50 years in business, was a relic, a holdover from a time when San Francisco was called the “Smut Capital of America,” when gay men had few safe places to meet, pornography was hard to come by and phones didn’t have touch-screens or dating apps. Or for an extra $5, they could have the basement and a seat in the theater to the right, explained Shelley Steward, who worked the front desk at the theater for 13 years. Nob Hill North is located approximately one mile north of Exit 58 (East) on I-495 (Long Island Expressway) Contact Info.
But it’s also true that up until its very last day, Nob Hill Theatre was a living and vital space, one that people from around the world would come to visit, and one that even people who had never visited before told Steward they’d miss. Email: rkost@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @RyanKost. Mon. 28 likes. “They’ve done a lot to release some of the shame around it.”. I enjoy coming to Hob Nob Hill for breakfast when I am in the area. It was a nightclub in the 1940s and a jazz club in the ’50s. Wisconsin Supper Clubs is a resource for and about supper clubs throughout Wisconsin that includes beautiful photographs of the unique supper club interiors, proprietors, and customers, as well as fascinating archival materials. At the time, decency laws were all the rage, but San Francisco was quickly becoming the epicenter of the sexual revolution. The space has been around much longer than the theater, of course. The couple is closing their male revue venue.
& Sun. He moved to San Francisco in 2006, but his first visit to the theater was eight years before that. Of course, he was. Directions. It serves to further underscore our dedication to achieving long-term success and unmatched quality – not only in the current landscape, but for the years and decades to come. He knows what this place means. Performers prepare for a show as the Nob Hill Theatre marks its closing on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in San Francisco. To accommodate that growth, in 1946, the restaurant was moved to its present location on Juniper and First Avenue and named the Melody Grill. SF’s Nob Hill Theatre closing after 50 years of stripped-down fun, Photo: Noah Berger / Special to The Chronicle. The building that was home to the Nob Hill Theatre is a squat, beige little structure. “But this place thrived.”, Ryan Kost is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.