"On Friday, Oct. 3, close to 6.30 a.m., a resident in Santa Rosa reported a body lying in the bike lane on the 2000 block of Brookwood Avenue. Police officers soon located a deceased man with a gunshot wound. He has now been identified as Mark Calcagni, a 60-year-old resident of Santa Rosa. Calcagni was the longtime manager of the Condor Club, the storied strip club on the corner of Broadway Street and Columbus Avenue in San Francisco's North Beach, the Gazetteer first reported. He was shot multiple times and was on foot at the time of the killing, the Santa Rosa Police Department told SFGATE on Wednesday. There is currently no named person of interest."
"The Condor Club first opened in 1958 as a music venue but became notorious in 1964 when waitress Carol Doda started dancing topless for patrons, making the Condor Club the first topless bar in America. The club also made the news in 1983 for a bizarre death, in which bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo was crushed to death while having sex with his girlfriend, dancer Theresa Hill, on top of the club's mechanical piano. The mechanism was accidentally turned on and rose to the ceiling, asphyxiating Ferrozzo. After numerous changes of name and ownership, in recent years, the club has operated once more as the Condor, branded as "The Original Topless Gentlemen's Club Since 1964.""
Mark Calcagni, a 60-year-old Santa Rosa resident and longtime manager of San Francisco’s Condor Club, was found shot to death on Oct. 3 in a bike lane on Brookwood Avenue. Police located the deceased shortly after a resident reported the body near 6:30 a.m.; Calcagni was shot multiple times and was on foot at the time of the killing. The Santa Rosa Police Department has not named a person of interest. The Condor Club opened in 1958, became the first topless bar in America in 1964 with Carol Doda, and endured a notorious 1983 death; the club currently operates as the Condor and did not comment.
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