Pink Pony
Milwaukee
Summary
Pink Pony was a men's cocktail lounge on West North Avenue, remembered as a gay-friendly bar from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. Opened in 1953 in a former delicatessen, it was taken over by Albert Tusa, former operator of the Tic Toc Club, and quickly gained a reputation for being open-minded and risque. Known for fancy specialty drinks and mentioned in oral histories by figures such as Josie Carter, the bar rarely appeared in gay travel guides and was never photographed.
It survived neighborhood decline for more than two decades before being destroyed by arson fires in the 1970s.