North Beach's Condor nightclub was best known for a well-endowed erotic dancer named Carol Doda, but in the predawn hours of Nov. 23, 1983, its most notable milestone was carved when beefy Assistant Manager James "Jimmy the Beard" Ferrozzo was crushed to death by a hydraulic piano while lying atop his naked stripper girlfriend, Theresa Hill.

Ferrozzo, who was clothed, evidently kicked the "up" switch on the piano with a pointed-toe boot while in the throes of passion, and the instrument - long used as an entrance prop by Doda - rose 15 feet to the ceiling and crushed him. Firefighters freed the screaming Hill and her dead partner four hours later...