Jim Rolph's Pleasure Den

Unfinished History

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Sunny Jim Rolph's Pleasure Den Photo: Chris Carlsson

In 1930 California Governor, Sunny Jim Rolph, builds his "entertainment hideout" in the Mission. Photographs of the governor at his inauguration in 1931, and his house on the corner of 21st and Sanchez Streets.

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Sunny Jim Rolph (center) at his 1931 inauguration as Governor of California.

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House on northeast corner of Sanchez and 21st Streets. Photo: Chris Carlsson

One of San Francisco's best-known mayors, later Governor of California, Rolph built this palace late in the Prohibition Era in 1930 as an "entertainment hideout." You can imagine the sort of things that went on in there.


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