Description
A crowded indoor dance hall or nightclub is filled with dozens of people standing and mingling beneath hanging lanterns and decorative banners. Small balcony boxes and tiered seating line the walls, with more figures visible above the main floor. The scene is colorful and busy, with a lively entertainment atmosphere. Undated.
Front Text (verbatim):
A Night at Topsy's Roost—Brightest Spot
in the Gay Life of San Francisco—Whitney Bros., Props.
Back Text (verbatim):
Topsy's New Roost
Brightest spot in the gay life of San Francisco. Great Chinese
cuisine. is located on the Great Highway. Guests
at the Beach, facing the broad pacific ocean.
There is no place in all the world like
Topsy's. It accommodates more than eleven
hundred guests who dine in novel Chinese
Roofs overlooking a spacious dance floor.
Shiny slides convey the dancers from the upper
tiers of Roosts to the lower level.
Topsy's is unique in its plan, amusing beyond description in its decorations, intriguing
in its atmosphere of the Sunny South,
beautiful in its bay of harmonious color.
A tremendous volume of patronage makes
possible splendid dance music and entertain-
ment and delicious food at exceptionally low
prices without cover charge.
A visit to San Francisco is not complete
without an afternoon or evening spent at
Topsy's Roost, the largest, the most interesting,
the most popular place of its kind in California.
Owned and operated by Whitney Bros.
Proprietors of the Chutes at the Beach.
From: Mrs. M. A. Dannen
