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Super Bowl: San Francisco’s Castro Gets Ready
Hi Tops is like any other sports bar in San Francisco on the eve of the Super Bowl: bedecked in beery flags, aglow from the action on several television screens. I ask a bartender about the Sunday afternoon festivities. “It will be madness,” he says, pouring me a pint of Lagunitas. “It will be fun.”
The bar is on Market Street, just a couple miles uphill from where tourists have been flocking to the corporate sinkhole that has been Super Bowl City. Hi Tops, though, sits on the edge of the Castro, maybe the loudest and proudest gay neighborhood in the entire world. And it bills itself as the city’s only true gay sports bar, which holds special significance for the Castro because, according to one chronicle of the neighborhood, it “was one of the few in the city that would handle the funerals of AIDS victims.”
Last year, the building was sold to a developer, who apparently intends to use the funeral home, and the adjacent parking lot, for condominiums and retail. That’s the way of San Francisco, from the Castro to the Mission, one city under LEED-certified glass.
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