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The Casino (nicknamed "Madame Peabody's Dancing Academy for Young Ladies" [1] and "The Dance") was a gay and lesbian dance club, café, pool hall, and card room located in Pioneer Square in Seattle. [2] [3] It was opened by Joseph Bellotti in 1930 [1] in the basement of the building where The Double Header was located.
The Double Header was a gay bar located at 407 2nd Avenue S in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood, in the U.S. state of Washington. The LGBT establishment opened in 1934 [1] and closed in December 2015. [2] [3] It was thought to be the oldest gay bar in the United States. [1] [4]
The bar is located in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, the oldest in the city. Lonely Planet says, "It may be two years younger than the official 'Oldest Bar in Seattle' (Georgetown's Jules Maes), but the Central isn't exactly modern. More of a locals' hangout than an object of historical interest, this long, narrow joint makes grotty bathrooms ...
The club was on the ground floor of the Kenneth Hotel at 701 First Avenue, near the corner of Cherry Street, a building originally built as the Safe Deposit Building after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, replacing the 1884 Merchant’s National Bank Building on the same site. Jim Wilke hosted Thursday night broadcasts from the club for KING ...
Pioneer Square, also known as "Skid Road" or "Fairyville," with its bars, clubs, and cabarets probably was the center of early public gay life in Seattle. The Casino , opened in 1930 on the corner of Washington Street and 2nd Avenue, was known as "the only place on the West Coast that was open and free for gay people", and where same-sex ...
Pioneer Square is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of Downtown Seattle, Washington, US. It was once the heart of the city: Seattle's founders settled there in 1852, following a brief six-month settlement at Alki Point on the far side of Elliott Bay .
The OK Hotel was an American bar and music venue located at 212 Alaskan Way South in Seattle's Pioneer Square district. It is now a location of low income units. The club's 15-year-plus life span came to an end with the Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, which damaged numerous buildings in the historic district. [1]
Dead Line is a bar and restaurant in Pioneer Square, Seattle, named after a historical name for Yesler Way. [1] Aimee Rizzo of The Infatuation says the "small, sleek, dark" bar with a ladder required to reach upper shelves. [2] She also said the bar's Gold Room "looks like an antique parlor filled with old furniture". [3]