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A fact from Hungry I appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/August.

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Is there any reason for this link?

I pulled the link about the present-day bar and strip club out of the middle of the article to "external links"; I would not mind at all if someone simply deletes it. - Jmabel | Talk 00:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I just moved the address and deleted that section, but the "The Club" section could use a lot of work. There's a lot of lame wordy-linky in there to little benefit. Manys (talk) 07:21, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the real question is: Is there any reason readers cannot be told the club has been a strip club for the last couple decades? Wikpedia does not censor!67.190.86.13 (talk) 04:35, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

When Banducci shut his nightclub down in the '80s, the name finally went into public domain after decades of traversing the globe to challenge anyone else anywhere who was calling another establishment the hungry i. Rocketvault (talk) 14:26, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Missing history

There's a whole part of hungry I history left out in this article -- when it moved to Ghirardelli Square. I don't know the dates and details, but I worked there in the summer of 1969. Enrico Banducci was my boss, so he still owned it during that period. Hayforker (talk) 17:07, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We're also missing the exact years of its founding and closing. I looked through sources and couldn't find these. It sounds like the club started very informally, in a rented basement. It shouldn't be too hard to find out when exactly it closed. Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:30, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It might be quite difficult without going through San Francisco public records. Trocadero Thunder (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Herb Caen's column might be a good resource for that. Trocadero Thunder (talk) 19:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I was very close to Banducci in the mid-'90s and I wish he could still be with us to answer these questions. Believe me, the actor who played him in Tim Burton's film "Big Eyes" did not even attempt to capture Banducci's flamboyantly gigantic personality. Rocketvault (talk) 14:31, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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