"That kind of brought me to say, let's get a gay bar that has a nod to the 1940s, that is kind of vibrant, comfortable, a little bit intimate ... and a nod to a period of time before McCarthyism in the late 50s, that it kind of was a little bit more footloose and free to be queer," Donohoe said.
With the help of some local historians, he got some archival black-and-white photographs to hang on the walls: pictures of a couple posing near a car in the 1950s, among others, to create a historical connection for patrons.
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