In it we see the mural and some of the bar patrons, including Arnett and several others who would play significant roles in San Francisco's early leather history, as the managers, bartenders, bouncers, and above all, the artists and decorators of local leather establishments. In 1964, when Life magazine did a story on homosexuality in America, a photograph of the Tool Box was spread across the two opening pages. The most celebrated element of the Tool Box was a huge mural painted by Chuck Arnett, a local artist who worked at the bar and whose paintings and posters were also featured at such later bars as the Red Star Saloon and the Ambush. Under new ownership and management, The Tool Box is a neighborhood gay bar offering happy hour specials catering to the local crowd, but is welcoming to all. Evolve Lounge, Midtown East : This chic neighborhood bar has an outdoor garden patio, a billiards room, and lively happy hour. "All this time I thought it meant Single, or Married!" (Caen 1964) The Eagle NYC, Chelsea: Perhaps the second-most cruise-y of New York's gay bars, the multi-level Eagle caters almost exclusively to gay men, and gets more debaucherous on each floor. Drinks are decently priced, its a small place but there are some nice couches in the back to lounge on. Which prompted a relieved message from Harold Call. This place was much cleaner than what people have been saying. "As I noted a few days ago, some of the young fellers who hang out in the Tool Box at Fourth and Harrison wear and S or an M on their shirt pockets to indicate Sadist or Masochist. Werther finished his last drink at his neighborhood gay bar, the Tool Box.
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Herb Caen wrote about the Tool Box in his famous San Francisco Chronicle column: Revelations in New York City Cabs Amy Braunschweiger. When the Tool Box opened later that year on the corner of Fourth Street and Harrison, it was the first leather bar located in the South of Market. “The first dedicated leather bar in San Francisco was the Why Not, which opened briefly in the Tenderloin in 1962. According to renowned leather historian Gayle Rubin in her book The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather, 1962-1997: