CWE Photos

Blanches and the Southern Belle were on Sarah.

The Bowery was at # 8 Sarah

Some of the bar include Second Cousins, Silly Goose and Earl's. This is an approximate location?

The Loading Zone

The corner of Lindell and Euclis was a restaurant.

Herby's was where the Drunken Fish is located now.

Brandy's was at #14 Maryland Plaza

Ces and Judy's place was at #21 Maryland Plaza

                                                    Heffalumps was in the 300 block of Euclid

                                                                400 block of Euclid was the
                                         Bottom of the Pot for girls and Potpourri for guys during the 70's

Bar Photos Continued

This is all in the former Gas Light Square Area. There were many gay places here in 1962. There was a place called the Wedge, which was right around Olive and Theresa, 3400-3500 block. There was a place called Serapes and a girl's bar called Shelly's. There was the Onyx, then the Hitching Post, and the Golden Gate. There was also a coffee house. Today in this area, there are a few buildings, parking lots and a bowling alley.

Something was here: 3223 Olive

More Bar Photos

This is the general location of Twist and Hyperspace. 1221 Washington

Another possible for Heartbreak Hotel? This is next to Paddy O's.

We are all stumped as to the location of Heartbreak Hotel. We think it was on South Broadway, definitely near the stadium. It was the site of Wired Women dances in the eighties, after the ones at the Church on Waterman. This is a possible site but doubtful?

The oldest bar anyone seems to know of was a place call Uncle John's. Betty says it was open when she was in junior high. It was in the area of 7th and Pine. We believe the building was torn down when the Wainwright expanded.

Bar Photo Tour with Jo

This was Studio 314 at 1730 Broadway, it had a big dance floor and closed as a gay bar about 2005. It is now Bar 101.

 The site of Hilary's, a piano bar many years ago-1017 Russell
 

        Bastille 1027 Russell







     Clementine's- the oldest gay bar in St. Louis 2001 Menard



           The French Market in Soulard

        The Library had country dancing in the 90's.

Griffiths was here in the 700 block of Lafeyette.

Lafeyette  Square-City Lights was in the back of Arcelia's. I was open in the90's. 1315 Mississippi

2280 Jefferson-The Heights

     2915 Jefferson at Pestalozzing-Cheryl's in the '90s.

Luvy Duvy's is a 2010 restaurant owned by lesbians on Jefferson at Arsenal.

We thought this might have been Monty's or Merv's. Steven Brawley tells me thought  that Monte's was where the McDonalds is now, at Jefferson and I-44.

This building pictured below is 3265 Jefferson. Was there a Merv's?

Random Notes on Bar History

Illinois

Schraeder's
Newsroom
The Front Page
Red Bull
The Grapevine-Mona's place, her gf was Jody
PK's on the main drag in E. St. Louis
Rainbow End in Collinsville, it became Circus Lounge
Smokey's in Springfield, Illinois
Zephyr-Granite City off route 3
Lil's Place-open 63-64
Escapades
Bubby and Cissy's in Alton
The Stockyards-mixed


Missouri

Bijou in the east end of the central west end. Believe it was open in 70's.
Dixie's was at Cass and Tucker, by the old bus station
There was a place at Chippewa and Bambrger in the '80s-drag shows including male impersonators
Grey Fox was on Spring
Sugar Shack on Telegraph and Lemay Ferry
Side Door 3 floors and the top was gay, it was on Market downtown?
Twist on Washington, straights took it over in the 70's, drag shows, maybe the same building as the Side Door?
More or Less
Middle of the Road-Newstead on the left, Mac McCann had it before More or Less-she did not like guys in the bars
Brandy's-in the CWE, near fountain and cobblestones, open a short time
Bottom of the Pot-Mickey Kline, across from Balabans, Potpourri was upstairs and was a guys place
Upstream on Lindell and Olive
French Market in Soulard, Margalita played organ and they held sing-alongs in the '70s, opened 1972?
"The Library" by the market in Soulard-country dancing
Pat's Bar became the Sahara, owned by Pat LaPlant
Shelley's-1956 Gas Light Square on Olive, straights and gays mixed
Golden Gate
Peyton Place
Grandma had a bar across from the bus station
The Kit Kat opened in 1962
Clementines is the oldest gay bar
Martin's, mostly guys, similar place to J. J.s guys from work in suits? closed in the 80s.
Herbie's-CWE
Girls bar in the space where Bad Dog is, by Magnolia's
The Heights
Hillary's-piano bar-Clements, winter '79, Soulard party mixed

Other gay places
Rex's on Olive, later moved to Michigan St.
Blanches Restaurant
City Cousin
Forest Park Hotel-breakfast-many gays went there, run by Herbie (not the one from the bar)

When Betty was in the 5th grade, she remembers two gay guys at school writing her a poem about seeing her at Uncle John's, it was on 7th street

St. Louis sites
http://stlgayhistory.livejournal.com/
Few gay people socialized with straights until the 80's.

St. Louis Lesbian Bar Photos

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.