
Later she ran Tommy's Place at 529 Broadway from 1952 to 1954, across from the then new City Lights Bookstore. In 1954 the bar was closed by the vice Squad. Two of the bartenders were charged with serving minors, and then some heroin, probably planted, was found in the ladies' toilets. Tommy lost her license and one of the bartenders was convicted.
She still ran the parking concession. In the late 1960s she had a expensive blond girlfriend who was on heroin. And Tommy became a dealer to supply her needs. She was busted in 1969 and served five years in the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi.
She was murdered shortly afterward.
- Nan Alamilla.Boyd. Wide-Open Town A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. University of California Press, 2003: 66-7, 82, 88, 90-2, 95, 133, 173n155.
- Dick Boyd. "Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca". The Semaphore, 189, Winter 2010. http://www.thd.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Winter-2010-Semaphore-Edition-189.pdf or http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Before_the_Castro:_North_Beach,_a_Gay_Mecca.
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