Mabuhay Gardens
Mabuhay Gardens was originally a
Filipino restaurant and club on Broadway in the North Beach neighborhood of
San Francisco, an area famous for its strip clubs. Rock promotor Dirk Dirksen rented out the club and began booking punk bands there, and the venue soon became one of the centers of punk rock in San Francisco in the late
1970s and early
1980s. In January
1978 the
Sex Pistols played one of their last shows there, shorly before breaking up, and through the next few years numerous bands, including the
Dead Kennedys, would play there. The club shut down in
1986.