The rivalry between San Francisco’s two Clown Alleys, located two miles apart, lasted for three decades and ended with looming lawsuits and an earthquake.
“Montague had the rights to use the name, I couldn’t change that. They lived off our good publicity,” Pailhe says. “Tourists thought it was the same place, but the quality wasn’t the same. It wasn’t run well. It wasn’t up to par.”
In a 1994 Examiner story announcing its demise, the paper described the relationship between the shacks as a “30-year-feud.” It was reported that Pailhe had threatened lawsuits. A view of Original Buffalo Wings on the corner of Lombard Street and Divisadero Avenue, which replaced the second Clown Alley location in about 1994.After its 1994 closure, the Lombard location became New Yorker’s Buffalo Wings — it’s still a popular wings spot today.
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