the National Park Service (NPS), for delaying a long term-lease; the restaurant had been operating under a series of short-term leases since June 2018. According to the National Park Service's website, a 3.5-year lease had been offered to the vendor (the Hountalas family doing business as Peanut Wagon Inc.) on December 30, which was turned down. On December 31, 2020, the Cliff House's sign was removed. The NPS says that it "is committed to maintaining this iconic building", but that the "solicitation process [for a new vendor] for this operation is currently paused as a result of the pandemic." On February 2, 2021 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution urging the NPS to find an immediate vendor for the restaurant while it searched for a long-term tenant. The Park Service confirmed that they planned to do so. Trademark issues In the wake of the departure of the Hountalas family and its company as the private concessionaire for the Cliff House, it emerged that the company had secured certain "Cliff House"-related trademarks. This led news organizations to speculate as to whether a future concessionaire would be able to use the "Cliff House" name to protect and promote the identity of the institution. In popular culture The area immediately around the Cliff House is part of the setting of Jack London's novel The Scarlet Plague (1912). Jack London also sets the meeting of Maud Sangster and Pat Glendon Jr. here in The Abysmal Brute (1913). An image of the second Cliff House was used on the cover of the album Imaginos by Blue Öyster Cult. The Cliff House appears in a scene in the 1948 film Race Street, starring George Raft, although the interior scene no doubt was a studio-set re-creation. The Cliff House is featured in the Ubisoft video game Watch Dogs 2. The Cliff House appears briefly in the 1958 film The Lineup, starring Eli Wallach and directed by Don Siegel. See also Sutro Baths Sutro Historic District 49-Mile Scenic Drive Wave motor References Notes Further reading External links Official National Park Service page Cliff House Project CliffHouse.com (website of Peanut Wagon, Inc., concessionaire 1973–2020) Radio episode of "Fog", California Legacy Project — from Mark Twain's "Early Rising as Regards Excursions to the Cliff House," published in The Golden Era magazine, 1864. Cliff House renovation, 1998-2006. Collection guide, California State Library, California History Room. c.1902 photograph of