The Purple Onion
Cellar club in San Francisco, California, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1960s music venue in Toronto, see The Purple Onion (Toronto). For other uses, see Purple Onion.
37°47′48″N 122°24′17″W The Purple Onion was a celebrated cellar club in the North Beach area of San Francisco, California, located at 140 Columbus Avenue (between Jackson and Pacific). With an intimate, 80-person setting, the club was a popular influence in local music and entertainment during the Beat era of the 1950s and 1960s.[1]