This is Attitudes, owned by Jan and Bonnie. It has been open since the late eighties and is a lesbian bar with a younger crowd. It briefly became Pink during the early 2000s but is now Attitudes again.
The new Novaks Bar and Grill. This is the nicest gay or lesbian bar that St.Louis has ever seen. It could be mistaken for TGI Fridays and on any given Friday happy hour, you will see many straights who come to socialize with the fashionable gay set.This
is the former Novaks, now Spot.
This is the very recently opened and closed JaBoni's Restaurant. In an earlier incarnation, this location was another gay restaurant.
This is the site ofthe former Genesis. Today it is a Jiffy Lube. No one was sure of what made up Genesis I but we believed that it had previously been called the Grand Finale.
Genesis II was open during the early 1980's and closed in either 85 or 86. I was there the night that it closed. They sold tickets to stay until 3 AM but at 1 PM, the police came in and shut it down. I was scared but for no reason, we were not harrassed.
This bar was located in the Central West End. It was below the current Culpeppers and was open during the seventies. To quote someone who remembered the place, "The actual name was the Potpourri. Upstairs it was failry quiet and mostly men. Downstairs is where all the dancing and women were. It became known as the Bottom of the Pot but was never the name of the bar as far as I know. None of us cared for that nickname. "
It looks like this place has seen better days. This is a close up of Georgia's. It was opened a short time because there was a shooting there.
In this area, for a brief time, there were three of these lesbian bars opened, Betty's CB, Pat's Palace, and this place. They were all at the same intersection of California and Shenandoah.
This is a close up of the front door of Pat's Palace. This was a real party place and many Saturday afternoons was the hot spot for drinking parties.
Pat's Palace and was open much later but during the some of the same time as Betty's CB.
This is the location of Betty's CB which was opened in 1951. It was a no-touch bar. This placed stayed open until the 1970's.
This is the site of the Kit Kat club at Nebraska and California.The address was 2802 California. This place was open until the eighties.
This is the location of a bar on Grand Avenue that was bombed during the 1970s. We believed that after the bombing, Giuseppes Restaurant expanded to fill the space. But we were not absolutely certain.
