Save The Gold Dust Lounge - A short film

The Gold Dust lounge is a fun, quirky, hallmark of San Francisco's Union Square district. Despite being successful and having no problems paying the bills, they're being evicted so the rent can be raised, and a corporate retail store can come in.
Occupy Gentrification

[@josephwilliams3185]

I use to frequent this great bar, every time I came from a San Francisco Giants or an Oakland Athletics game, even a few Golden State Warriors games and other places in the city. I first came here in 1981 in my U.S. Navy days whether I was stationed in Naval Station Treasure Island (1988-1990) (1993_1996) the U.S.S Kansas City stationed in either Alameda NAS, or NSC Oakland (1984-85). the U.S.S Carl Vinson (1993-94) U.S.S Kiska (1978-1981). the music has changed there since I frequent it, and I do remember some of the people who worked there, and come in for a drink there. Well I now in in a town called O'Fallon, IL and I'm retired from the navy now. The town is near St. Louis, Mo. Great times at this place and some very good memories since I went there and have seen this video. Its too bad it had to move though.

[@DevilDogDen1775]

I started going to the Gold Dust in the early 80's..... It was always my favorite bar in SF....

[@superawesomegoodtime]

Well done! Love it...but maybe I'm slightly biased because the Irish coffee being made at 1:20 was for me. Hope we can all pull through with this.

[@marekbąk-x6d]

byłem tam wiele razy, cudowne klimatyczne miejsce, pozdrowienia dla Marina from poland

[@SamanthaMarieOfficial]

Seriously! Save the Gold Dust! It's a part of San Francisco culture!

[@josephwilliams3185]

I wonder what it looks like today

[@joshhayes8240]

It's a super tiny boutique Express store. And there's another large Express store .02 miles away.

[@josephwilliams3185]

Thanks for the info!

[@samohtssetse]

Seriously? I was the first to watch this.

[@Bienevg]

The Gold Dust needs to be saved. Just like the french clothing store FCUK that came and went, so will this clothing chain: it will not be a permanent fixture. it's products are too cheap and of too poor of a quality to be able to sustain the corner. In the end, that does not matter any way. What matters is that we need to preserve street level live and spontaneity. We will also lose the record store on the corner: big loss for locals and tourists who love sources for hardcopy music.