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A great attic find! This is a one-of-a-kind ephemera collector piece featuring a prominent San Francisco Jazz nightclub. Earthquake McGoon's was located at varios locations in San Francisco This colorful vintage ephemera piece is ready to hang and enjoy in your office, home bar or entertainment area, or a great conversation piece for the man (or woman) cave! A true piece of the San Francisco jazz nightclub history. This piece includes a fictitious business license, an alcoholic beverage license, permit to operate, and a dance hall municipal license, It measures 16" x 20" and has protective plexiglass in front. The permits / licenses are dated early to mid 1960's.
Turk Murphy was the leader of his own famous jazz band, and he had a nightclub that opened around1960.This nightclub was called "Earthquake McGoon's." The nightclub was located at various prominent San Francisco hot spots. ... Peter Clute was the piano player with Turk Murphy in his jazz band.
McGoon's Opens at 630 Clay Street - 1962
In 1962, McGoon’s moved to the most well-known of its four locations, 630 Clay Street, the site of the old William Tell Hotel.
The Murphy Band performed regularly but when the ensemble went on tour, replacement bands were hired, including the Bay City Jazz Band, Eddie Condon’s Jazz Band, the World’s Greatest Jazz Band, the Dukes of Dixieland, Wild Bill Davison’s Jazz Band, Ev Farey’s Bay City Six, and James Dapogny’s Little Chicago Jazz Band. Turk’s band would sometimes alternate sets with out-of-town groups like the New Orleans Rascals of Osaka, Japan or the Firehouse Five Plus Two that came up from LA at least once a year to celebrate the anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake.
A brief chronology:
Earthquake McGoon's opens at Broadway in 1960
Opens at their new location on Clay St. in 1962
Opens on The Embarcadero in 1978
Opens on Pier 39 and then closes for good in 1984
The permits / licenses displayed in this framed piece are all from the Clay St. era
