Basin Street West was a nightclub owned by Jack Yanoff in San Francisco located in the North Beach neighborhood at on 401 Broadway.
[1] It opened as a Jazz club in 1964, then integrated soul and rock acts before its closure in 1973.
[2] Jack Yanoff opened the Basin Street West as a jazz club in 1964.
The only surviving video footage of Lenny Bruce performing in a nightclub was recorded at Basin Street West in August 1965.
[4] Soul acts such as Otis Redding and Smokey Robinson & The Miracles also performed at the club.