Five neighboring brick buildings on the 700 block of Montgomery Street have perhaps seen more history than any other street in San Francisco.
After a campaign of harassment from the San Francisco Police Department, in 1949, authorities took Stoumen’s liquor license away. Stoumen, a heterosexual Holocaust survivor, protested the decision in court, which culminated in the 1951 landmark California Supreme Court case Stoumen v. Reilly, in which the Black Cat won. The case is considered the first in the country to state that police cannot interfere on public gatherings based on sexual orientation/identity.
The win, however, was short lived. After further raids and targeting from the SFPD and the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control agency, the bar lost its liquor license on Halloween night, 1963.
This illustration of San Francisco in March 1847, before gold was discovered in California, is signed as accurate by military officials. It shows Montgomery Street on the shore of the bay.Thousands of men with the glint of gold in their eye abandoned their boats here to head to the Sierra, or instead to the distractions and vice of the Barbary Coast.
After housing a plumber’s shop, clothing store and printer’s press, in 1930, famed artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera made the building their studio. Over their 10 years there, the married couple became stars, in the art world at least. Rivera painted three murals across the city. And while some in City Hall were outraged at commissioning a card-carrying communist to decorate the city, other artists were honored to have him.
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