Trocadero Transfer

The Trocadero Transfer, or The Troc,[1] was an after hours dance club in operation from December 1977 to the late–1990s in San Francisco, California, U.S..[2][3] It was located at 520 4th Street at Bryant in the SoMa neighborhood.

It refers to situations where someone has an easy life [someone who is born wealthy, has received a large inheritance, has gotten a job that is a sinecure, etc.].

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, because fewer people were going out dancing, from 1987 to 1989, the Trocadero was partially closed down and only hosted Disco Parties and special events.

A couple of times in the early 1990s, San Francisco's first massive rave, the Toontown Club was held at the Trocadero.

[11][12] The other long-running club at the Trocadero was Death Guild, which moved to the Troc in 1992 from the Pit (after one night at DNA Lounge).

Also in the mid-1990s Death Guild spawned a theme camp of the same name at Burning Man, widely known for its Thunderdome, first built in 1999.

Before the Glas Kat remodel, a large birdcage-like go-go dance cage resided on a corner of the stage in the club since 1989.