Photo: Dreamyshade via Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Because Harvey’s also serves food all day, from brunch to dinner, it is now open normal hours seven days a week with outdoor dining. The bar is filled with historical memorabilia, including Milk’s campaign posters, and it helps fundraise for local nonprofits in the supervisor’s honor.
Once the bar was refurbished in 1996, it reopened as Harvey’s, in honor of Milk. The owners rebuilt using some reparations from the city, but only a few years later, a fire destroyed the building. In retaliation, police officers raided and destroyed the Elephant Walk. In 1979, when Milk’s murderer, Dan White, was charged only with voluntary manslaughter, outraged people protested at city hall. The community was devastated after the tragic assassination of Harvey Milk in 1977. It followed in the footsteps of Twin Peaks: a space with large, open windows where the queer community could gather together (something that was particularly important to one of the original owners, Fred Rogers). Harvey’s, opened in 1974, was originally named the Elephant Walk (after the Elizabeth Taylor film). Photo: Franco Folini via Flickr/ CC BY-SA 2.0