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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

The oldest nightclub in San Francisco was built in 1907 by a French-quarter impresario fresh out of jail, and its balconies, frescoed ceilings and marble columns have survived every reinvention since. The Great American Music Hall, at 859 O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin, is a roughly 600-capacity Victorian ballroom that ranks among the most beautiful small venues in America. It opened as Blanco's Cafe amid the post-earthquake rebuilding boom, a bordello-adjacent palace of gilt and plaster ru...