Big Al's was one of the first topless bars in San Francisco and the United States since the mid 1960s. It was the first bottomless bar in San Francisco.
It is next to the Condor Club

Condor Club

The Condor Night Club is a striptease bar or topless bar in the North Beach section of San Francisco, in California, USA. The club opened in 1964....

, where the strip-club phenomenon first started, and since 1991 claims to be one of the largest porn stores in San Francisco.

Big Al's is now closed, and the space is currently vacant. However, it still stands as a San Francisco landmark featured in several films and TV shows as well as postcards and touristic brochures.

Big Al's in film

• Mondo Topless
  Mondo Topless
  Mondo Topless is a 1966 pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others. It was Meyer's first color film following a string of black & white "roughie nudies", including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! While a straightforward sexploitation film, the...
  
   - by Russ Meyer
  Russ Meyer
  Russell Albion "Russ" Meyer was a U.S. motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer....
  
  , 1966
• Dirty Harry
  Dirty Harry
  Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan....
  
  - by Don Siegel, 1971