SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Longtime drinking spot The Gold Dust Lounge is reopening Friday afternoon at San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf with much fanfare -- a covered wagon procession and appearances from a famous cowboy actor and plenty of local dignitaries are just part of the festivities.
The Gold Dust Lounge grand reopening will begin near the original Union Square location at 3:15 p.m. with bar owners from the Bovis family saluting the old spot at 247 Powell St. from a motorized cable car, according to bar publicist Lee Houskeeper.
The cable car is part of a procession starting on Powell Street and making its way to 165 Jefferson St., the new locale of the bar that was shut down last spring after the owners lost the lease after nearly 80 years near Union Square. The procession will be headed by a horse-drawn covered wagon carrying San Francisco local actor Stuart Whitman, who will be celebrating his 85th birthday on Friday at the bar reopening.