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Fern bars were a welcoming space for single women, which ushered in the “ladies’ night” concept. Prior to this, many young, single women did not gather in bars to socialize.
Bartenders at Eddie Rickenbackers fern bar in San Francisco with Tiffany lamps and motorcycle tire on ceiling (c. 2008) One of the first fern bars was the original T.G.I. Friday's on the corner of 63rd Street and First Avenue in a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of New York City, where many young single adults lived at the time. The founder ...
Lisa Cannistraci and bar owner Minnie Rivera opened Henrietta Hudson in 1991 as a lesbian-centric bar. [7] The establishment became New York City's longest-operating lesbian bar after the closure of other similar venues. [11] [4] [12] [13] [14] Gay liberation icon Stormé DeLarverie was a bouncer at Henrietta Hudson well into her 80s. [6]
Maxwell's Plum was a bar at 1181 First Avenue, at the intersection with 64th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A 1988 New York Times article described it as a "flamboyant restaurant and singles bar that, more than any place of its kind, symbolized two social revolutions of the 1960s – sex and food". [1]
The Duplex, also known as The Duplex Piano Bar and Cabaret, is a historical gay bar, piano bar, and cabaret theater in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. [1] The Duplex originally opened in 1951 on 55 Grove Street nearby in the same neighborhood, and moved to its current location at 61 Christopher Street in 1989.
Speaking of historic—after an astonishing eight-year closure and gut renovation, the Waldorf Astoria New York is back and better than ever with a new vision of 21st-century luxury. The hotel ...
By the 1970s, the building was housing a pay-by-the-hour hotel named Liberty Inn. [2] In the fall of 1974, The Anvil opened, with the main floor featuring a dance floor and a rectangular bar along with a performance area, all painted black. There was another small bar downstairs with a large screen on which gay male porn of the
Marie's Crisis Cafe is a piano bar and gay bar located at 59 Grove Street in the West Village of New York City. Constructed on the site of Thomas Paine's home, the location originally served as a brothel before gradually transitioning to a bar. By the early 1970s, the bar had become an established presence in the West Village for the nascent ...