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Nightclub in San Francisco, United States

The EndUp is a nightclub in San Francisco, California. Opened in 1973, the club is located at 6th Street and Harrison in the South of Market district. Known for its status as an afterhours club, the venue has hosted a variety of benefits and events during its time as part of San Francisco's nightlife community.

The nightclub's only location has been the site of a former 22 room hotel at the corner of 6th and Harrison. Mister Marcus, a writer for San Francisco's monthly LGBT magazine Kalendar, described the EndUp's opening in his column Man About Town:The long awaited EndUp opened last Thursday too and you have to see it to believe it. I was lucky to get a demonstration of their quadraphonic sound system long ago. It's a big dance bar and certainly will add to the ambiance of Harrison Street. Congratulations to Al Hanken and Greg Loughner on their latest "baby". One of the events held at the club during this era was the Jockey Short Dance Contest (19741978). Taking its name from the type of underwear, the contest was a common event in San Francisco gay clubs during the mid 1970s. Al Hanken believed strong incentives like the contest were necessary to bring patrons to the EndUp's South of Market district from the Castro district, some away, as the bars there were already featuring their own versions. When the EndUp's sister club the RoundUp closed in 1977, Al Hanken's focus went towards developing the EndUp's burgeoning DJ talent. DJs Steve Fabus and Patrick Cowley hosted the recurring event Church (19791982) which started at 6:00a. m. to accommodate patrons who had just left the Trocadero Transfer nightclub.

Al Hanken died in 1989, leaving the club to his brother, Helmut Hanken. During this era, events such as Club Uranus (19891992) created by DJs Lewis Walden and Michael Blue featured a community of artists performing as art dancers and drag queens, celebrating creative energies through go go dancing. The show featured co host Jerome Caja and a cast of drag performance artists such as Trauma Flintstone, Diet Popstitute, Steven Maxxine, Tina go go, Tony Vaguely, Kitty Litter, Pussy Tourette and Elvis Herselvis. Running concurrent to this was Klub Dekadence (19911993) on Friday nights with DJ Bugie. Pointing to Whitmore's management of the club as the cause of its difficulties, a third Hanken brother, Carl, began legal proceedings in Marin County to have Whitmore removed as executor of Helmut Hanken's estate, whereupon a brief interregnum of court disputed ownership for the club began. In April 1996, Marin Superior Court commissioner Mary Grove ended the dispute by terminating Whitmore's executorship, saying he had "mismanaged the estate, wasted the estate's assets (and) wrongfully neglected the estate." With a new executor in control, Helmut Hanken's estate immediately sold the club to Carl Hanken. Having lost control of the venue, Whitmore confronted Carl Hanken at the latter's Kentfield residence on July 24, 1996. After chasing Hanken out of his house at gunpoint, Whitmore shot Hanken in the back. Events such as Fag Fridays (19962008) featuring DJ David Harness, saw expansion of the club's operating hours. By the end of this era the EndUp's longest running continual event was its Sunday morning tea dance, an event which had been occurring in one form or another and produced completely in house, since 1979. These new owners kept intact the club's affinity for gay disco and underground house music. mash ups, breakbeat, techno, tech house, electro house, minimal techno and microhouse continued to attract top tier DJ's from around the world, including Derrick Carter, Doc Martin, Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, Tommy Sunshine, Ellen Ferrato, DJ Sneak and Josh Wink. In 2009 the club received industry recognition with the awards "Best DJs", "Best Dance Club", and "Best Outdoor Bar".

After undertaking renovations in 2011 and other improvements to ensure the EndUp's legacy and its brand, Events during this period include Sunrise Sunday featuring DJs Mauricio Aviles, Gene Hunt, Ruben Mancias, Julius Papp, Miguel Migs, Norm Stradley, Jay J, and Franky Boissy. The venue in this era has moved beyond its core focus upon the LGBT community to embrace a wider mix of clientele. Two suspects were initially arrested and charged, but the charges were later dropped for lack of evidence. Four months later on October 2, 2016, an argument which began inside of the EndUp became physical once it moved outside the club. 26 year old John Sanyaolu, accompanied by his friends and relatives who had joined him at the club, was shot along with two of his relatives. Sanyaolu died of his injuries after his assailants fled the scene.

Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, one of the principal characters from Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, enters and wins the "Mr. EndUp Dance Contest" to help pay his rent. The end of Ricardo Bracho's 1997 play The Sweetest Hangover features an extended dialogue at the EndUp between two characters discussing their future. At the conclusion of the Saturday night Bay Area rave depicted in the 2000 film Groove, the characters Cliff and Beth are shown the Sunday morning after going to the EndUp.