The Paper Doll Club, also known as Paper Doll, was an LGBTQ bar and supper club in operation from 1949 to 1961, and located at the corner of Cadell Place and Union Street (now 524 Union Street) in the North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, California.
[1][2] Patrons and performers of the bar included Carmen McRae,[7] Ann Weldon,[7] and Lillian Faderman.
[4] In total, a collection of San Francisco LGBT venues opened and flourished in the early 1950s, including the Paper Doll, The Beige Room, Tommy's Place/12 Adler Place, Miss Smith’s Tea Room, Tin Angel, Dolan's, and Gordon's.
[2] In 1961, Benedetti sold the business to Don Farber, a professional baseball player who renamed it Cadell Place.
[1] It was featured in the Kim Anno art exhibition "Lost and Found: A Museum of Lesbian Memory, Part 1" (2000) shown at "The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society of Northern California," and at the San Francisco Public Library.