Club 1226 aka 'Christopher Allan's Club 1226'

"Christopher Allen's 1226" at 1226 Oshkosh Avenue in Oshkosh first appeared in the Bar Guide of Quest magazine vol. 12-issue 11 in June 2005. Almost immediately, the name was corrected to "Christopher Allan's Club 1226". In actuality, the bar was owned by partners Christopher Nikolai & Allan VanderVelden, explaining the bar's name and why the spelling correction was made.

Having previously run a bar and restaurant in the town of Dale (12 miles west of Appleton), one of the owners recalled in 2008 "We decided to move to Oshkosh to open a gay bar because we thought it was something the community really needed. It's paid off in a lot of ways-- if not always financially."