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| − | Ritch Street Health Club was a popluar 1970's bathhouse located at 330 Ritch Street in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. It opened in the fall of 1965 by gay community leader Rick Stokes and his business partner David Clayton. It was mentioned in ''Tales of the City''. By the late 1970s it had become a part of the national Club Baths chain. It closed down during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. | + | Ritch Street Health Club was a popluar 1970's bathhouse located at 330 Ritch Street in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. It opened in the fall of 1965 by gay community leader Rick Stokes and his business partner David Clayton. It was mentioned in ''Tales of the City''. By the late 1970s it had become a part of the national Club Baths chain. The club was hit with an arson fire in 1977 as part of a rash of bathhouse fires that swept San Francisco in 1977 - 1978. It closed down during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. |
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Revision as of 03:32, 4 November 2010
by Jeff Auer
Ritch Street Health Club was a popluar 1970's bathhouse located at 330 Ritch Street in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco. It opened in the fall of 1965 by gay community leader Rick Stokes and his business partner David Clayton. It was mentioned in Tales of the City. By the late 1970s it had become a part of the national Club Baths chain. The club was hit with an arson fire in 1977 as part of a rash of bathhouse fires that swept San Francisco in 1977 - 1978. It closed down during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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