Gaytime Bar
Milwaukee
Summary
Gaytime Bar was a Milwaukee tavern at 731 N. 4th Street that operated from the mid-1940s until 1968. It opened as a renamed successor to Sally's Cocktail Bar, a venue popular with gay men that had drawn intense scrutiny from police and military authorities; as a condition of a 1944 license, owner Peter Antross was required to change the bar's name. Operated by the Antross brothers and popular with a gay clientele, the Gaytime appeared in national gay travel guides through 1967.
It closed in 1968 following a shooting and attempted robbery, and the building was demolished later that year for parking.