North Beach
Five of San Francisco's eight open strip clubs sit within two blocks of Broadway and Columbus: the Condor, the Hustler Club, Vanity, Centerfolds and Garden of Eden. Open clubs are marked in grey, closed ones in red. Roaring 20's, next door to the Condor, closed years ago; Little Darlings ran out of the Condor's own building at 312 Columbus.
South of Broadway
The other three open clubs are spread across the Tenderloin and South of Market. The Crazy Horse is at 980 Market Street; a block west is the site of the Market Street Cinema, which closed in 2013 and has since been demolished. The New Century is two blocks north on Larkin. The Gold Club is on Howard Street, a few blocks east, and is the only one of the four with a liquor licence.
The whole city
Pulled back, the whole set: seven buildings in two blocks of North Beach, four more strung along Market Street and Howard. Of the eight clubs that are open, four serve alcohol and four are fully nude.
From map to chart
Lined up, the same eight clubs become the bottom row of an ownership chart. Everything above them is the paperwork between the name on the door and the people who profit.
One company per club
Each club is run by its own company. The four licensed clubs had to file ownership questionnaires with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The other four did not, so for them the public record stops at the company name and its manager.
S.A.W. Entertainment
The Condor and the Hustler Club share one licensee, S.A.W. Entertainment Ltd, a California corporation formed in 1982. Its stock has changed hands six times.
Who holds the S.A.W. stock
The share register filed with ABC in 2022 puts the stock in three revocable trusts: Carouba 58.3 percent, Jason Mohney 33.3 percent, Eric Forbes 8.3 percent. The last figure is a quarter of Roger Forbes's former third, bought as part of a $900,000 sale in December 2021.
Gold Club
Gold Club SF LLC is 65 percent owned by JRJ-SF, a Nevada LLC with the same three seats: the Carouba trust, the Jason Mohney trust and Frisco & Seattle Group, which is itself 75 percent Carouba trust and 25 percent Eric Forbes trust. Two Massachusetts investors, John Basile and Richard Furnelli, hold the other 35 percent through Alaska LLCs; the 2022 form was hand-corrected to swap their shares.
Vanity
Vanity's 2025 licence went to BT California LLC, split in thirds between the Carouba trust, Frisco & Seattle Group and JSSMB, a Nevada LLC of four Mohneys: Jason 40 percent, Mary Beth, Sharla and Stephanie Couch 20 percent each.
The people
Three people sit behind every licensed club: Joseph Carouba, Jason Mohney and Eric Forbes. At S.A.W. and at BT their look-through split is about 7 : 4 : 1. Carouba is also the manager of record of every company on this page, including the four unlicensed clubs, whose owners appear in no filing.
The buildings
Six of the eight buildings are owned by LLCs named after their street addresses. Their only person on file is the manager: Carouba for the Gold Club, Vanity, Crazy Horse and New Century buildings, Eric Forbes for the Hustler Club and Garden of Eden buildings. The Condor and Centerfolds rent from outside landlords.
The back office
Two more companies sit alongside. SFBSC Management, run by Carouba, was the lead defendant in the 2014 dancers' class action as manager of the clubs. Consolidated Bookkeeping in Seattle, run by Eric Forbes, keeps the books; its phone number appears on the bookkeeper's line, BT California's headquarters and two landlord LLCs.
Closed clubs that still matter
Little Darlings, Market Street Cinema and Roaring 20's are closed, but Little Darlings of SF LLC is the sworn 100 percent owner of New Century's company and was sole member of the Market Street Cinema company through its 2006 bankruptcy.
The whole web
Every company, trust, building and person, with the connections the filings support. Click a club to trace its owners upward, or a person to trace everything they reach downward. Percentages are the figures printed on the filings; dashed lines are arithmetic.