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San Francisco, California
Castro hardware and variety store and drag outfitter since 1936.
Full-service hardware store, costume supply shop, and drag-queen outfitter rolled into one — a Castro Street institution since 1936, now in its fourth generation of family ownership under general manager Terry Asten-Bennett. The inventory spans tools, cookware, garden supplies, fabrics, crafts, toys, and gifts, plus services like key-cutting, knife sharpening, and pipe threading. Cliff's was one of the first straight-owned Castro businesses to hire openly gay staff in the early 1970s, and the family's 1946 children's Halloween costume contest is the direct ancestor of the Castro's legendary Halloween celebration. A San Francisco Legacy Business, it's been serving the neighborhood for nearly 90 years — outlasting the retail apocalypse by being genuinely indispensable to the community around it.
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