Well-Known Members
Businesses You May Have Heard Of
A Sampling of Briar Businesses
You May Have Heard Of
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Bay Area businesses you may have heard of whose owners were Briars include:
- Ananda Village Products
- Castro Camera
- (Harvey Milk’s camera store)
- C.O.Y.O.T.E.
- (“Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics,” the sex workers labor union founded by Margo St. James)
- Good Vibrations
- (sex-positive retail store & catalog founded by Joani Blank)
- Greens Restaurant
- Haight Ashbury Switchboard
- Kaisek Wong Clothing Designer
- Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative (Berkeley, CA)
- Nolo Press
- (self-help law publisher)
- Pickle Family Circus
- (animal-free, family-friendly)
- Rainbow General Store
- (grocery and dry-goods cooperative)
- Rosie Radiator and the Guinness World Champion San Francisco Rad Tap® Team
- Holders of the Guinness Book of World Records for long-distance tap dance
- San Francisco Roommate Referral Service
- San Francisco Zen Center
- Smith and Hawken Tools
- Sea Trek Ocean Kayaking
- Tassajara Bakery
- The Skin Zone
- (the original “Body Shop” type store)
- Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture
- (founded in 1976 by Ann Howell). Fort Mason was the principal port of embarkation for the World War II Pacific campaign. It is one of the first military installations to be repurposed for community use by arts and cultural organizations. The lower dock-side area of Fort Mason is home to the Fort Mason Center for the Arts and Culture,)