Saturday, March 21, 2015
On Saturday Scott, Warren, and I went in to San Francisco to see The Witches of East Bay at the Castro Theater. The show was a take-off on the movie The Witches of Eastwick but with drag queens. It was hysterical how over the top the guy who played Jack Nicholson was. They showed the movie after and we stayed for that as well. I haven't seen the movie since the 80s and realized the guy doing Jack's part really wasn't over the top at all.
Prior to the show we stopped at the bar on the corner just half a block up from the theater. The bar is called Twin Peaks and here is what the website San Francisco Travel had to say about it:
Twin Peaks Tavern (401 Castro Street)
Established: 1935An emblem of the gay community, Twin Peaks was designated an historical bar in 2013. The bar is the first known gay bar to feature full length open plate glass windows, openly revealing the identities of their patrons. Sitting at the intersection of Castro and Market Streets, Twin Peaks stands as a gateway into the neighborhood.
Outside the bar was (I assume) a homeless woman. She had a suitcase and her dog with her and it looked like she was accepting change from folks. Anyway, a man came up and gave her some food for her dog. She lit into him and started screaming "I don't accept dog food from bitches!" Oddly, she sounded exactly like the character Pensatucky from the show Orange Is the New Black. Scott informed me that nudists have taken to walking around the city. He wasn't kidding. I saw one just after he mentioned it.
