Slim's was a

nightclub A nightclub (music club, discothèque, disco club, or simply club) is an entertainment venue during nighttime comprising a dance floor, lightshow, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who plays recorded music. Nightclubs gene ...

and

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, California, which was opened by

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until h ...

in 1988. Scaggs and his partners took over a vacant restaurant which was called the Warehouse and threw a party there on December 31, 1987, to celebrate before closing it to remodel, and the new venue opened on September 16, 1988. The club closed permanently on March 18, 2020.

History

The opening acts at Slim's on September 16, 1988 were

Katie Webster Katie Webster (January 11, 1936 – September 5, 1999), born Kathryn Jewel Thorne, was an American boogie-woogie pianist. Career Webster was initially best known as a session musician behind Louisiana musicians on the Excello and Goldband reco ...

, Anson Funderburgh,

Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist. From his first professional stage appearance in 1957 to his most recent national tour in 2018, ...

, and 'Presidio Slim' (a.k.a. Boz Scaggs). One of Scaggs's business partners is

Frank Caufield Frank J. Caufield (1939 – November, 2019) was a co-founder and named partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, based in Menlo Park, California. From 1973 to 1978, Caufield was a general partner and manager of Oak Grov ...

, senior partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers. The Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir first performed their

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concert at Slim's in 1988; since then, the choir has returned every Christmas Eve as a Bay Area tradition.

Design

Slim's has an open floorplan with the stage at one end of the main level, and the bar running along two walls. There is a balcony at the other end with seating for 30, reserved for those who purchase Dinner & Admission tickets. The "sister nightclub" to Slim's is the

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, owned by the same corporation since 2002.

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