Currently: Residential?
Previously: Hustle Inn; Tool Box; Naked Grape
2097 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94114
Status: Residential apartments
History
Summary
| Name | Dates of Operation |
| Hustle Inn | 1976 – 1977 |
| Tool Box | 1976 |
| Naked Grape | 1972 – 1975 |
Details
From 1972 to 1975, this was the site of the Naked Grape, a popular dance bar for younger gays that opened before noon on weekdays and by 6:00 a.m. on weekends and holidays.
In 1976, it became the Tool Box, a western-themed bar with more of a SOMA vibe, though it’s unclear if it had any connection to the bar of the same name at 399 4th Street, which in 1962 became the first leather bar South of Market.
By the end of the year, it became the Hustle Inn, which also lasted about a year.
It then became a liquor store called Jug’s Liquors. It’s just doors down from what is now Rikkers Liquors at 2077 Market and next door to the Apothecarium (2095 Market), a medical marijuana dispensary, but 2097 Market Street now appears to be residential unless the addresses have been changed. MyCastro.com lists it as the address for the San Francisco branch of the Black Book Marketing Group but we haven’t found corroboration for that elsewhere.
Sources
Black Book Marketing Group profile, MyCastro.com.
“Castro Business Ads from the 1970’s,” Uncle Donald’s Castro Street.
Leyland, Winston, Out in the Castro: Desire, Promise, Activism, Leyland Publications, 2002, ISBN 0-943595-88-6.
Lipsky, Dr. William, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, Aracadia Publishing, 2006. 0-7385-3138-3
Location
2097 Market Street, San Francisco
