Manager Of Historic California Strip Club, Site Of Infamous Death By Piano, Is Fatally Shot - Beritaja

Decades aft a bouncer was infamously killed by a soft during a intersexual interlude, calamity has erstwhile again struck the legendary Condor Club successful San Francisco. The wide head of the historical topless barroom was precocious changeable extracurricular of his Santa Rosa home, and his killer, for now, remains a mystery.

The Santa Rosa Police Department is investigating the homicide of Mark Calcagni, 60, who was recovered lying unresponsive connected Brookwood Avenue adjacent Birdsfoot Way astatine 6:25 a.m. Friday. His was changeable aggregate times, and the motive down the onslaught is unknown.

On Wednesday, the section was still searching for a fishy and a execution weapon, said section spokesperson Sgt. Patricia Seffens. Anyone pinch accusation about the incident, aliases adjacent residents pinch information camera footage, are urged to travel forward.

The Condor Club acknowledged “the tragic decease of our beloved wide head Mark Calcagni” successful a Wednesday statement, saying that his abrupt passing has been met pinch daze and sorrow.

“Mark’s representation — his warmth, generosity and committedness to organization — will endure,” said the club. “On behalf of everyone astatine Condor Club, we nonstop our deepest condolences and guidelines successful solidarity pinch those mourning this bonzer loss.”

The Condor Club, which began providing big intermezo successful 1964, bills itself arsenic the oldest topless barroom successful America and the birthplace of topless entertainment.

It has collected its adjacent stock of colorful tales complete the people of six decades successful business.

Perhaps about notable is the infamous 1983 soft incident, erstwhile bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfriend, exotic dancer Theresa Hill, had intercourse connected a achromatic soft that, during shows, was lowered from the ceiling by cables. But the mates accidentally deed the “on” switch, and the soft roseate to the ceiling, fatally crushing Ferrozzo successful the process.

The soft was first made celebrated by exotic dancer Carol Doda, who made her nightly entranceway atop the instrument. Doda was credited pinch wide popularizing topless dancing, pinch her dazzling onstage persona, and gained worldwide fame done her enactment successful the 1960s and the ’70s.

In 1965, the nine was raided by police, and Doda was arrested for indecent exposure. The club’s then-owners, Gino Del Prete and Pete Mattioli, were charged pinch “running a disorderly house,” according to reporting by the San Francisco Chronicle. They were each acquitted later that twelvemonth successful a lawsuit that established that topless bars for illustration the Condor Club did not break California’s obscenity laws. Doda died successful 2015 astatine property 78 owed to complications related to kidney failure.

Calcagni helped support history live arsenic wide head of the Condor Club, which successful 2022 became the first big intermezo venue designated arsenic a bequest business by the metropolis of San Francisco.

“He [Calcagni] was a really awesome guy,” Wolfgang Welch, wide head of adjacent Vanity nightclub, told Gazetteer. “He ever said truthful highly of keeping the organization and the family arsenic beardown and tied together arsenic he could; he was ever a ‘willing to return his garment disconnected to springiness it to personification else’ benignant of guy.”