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Business · Milwaukee Belmont Hotel Coffee Shop (As shown below, while the next-door Gaytime Bar was listed in nearly every national Gay Bar Guides only from about 1965 to 1967, the Belmont Hotel Coffee Shop was listed only off and on in national g Business · Milwaukee Friendly Bar The Friendly Bar at 819 S. 2nd Street appears to have been the earliest of many LGBTQ-friendly bars to occupy its building. Originally opened by Croatian immigrants Mike and Julia Stjepanovic, it pass Business · Milwaukee Gay 90's Gay 90's was a Milwaukee bar that operated from 1945 to 1968 across three successive locations, ending at 433 W. Michigan Street next to the Royal Hotel. A contributor remembered the "Old Gay 90s" as Business · Milwaukee Gaytime Bar 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 dra Business · Milwaukee Legion Bar The Legion Bar stood at 745 N. 6th Street in Milwaukee and operated through the 1940s, run by Nicholas Marmigas, before closing by 1949. Long known mainly through oral histories, it has been documente S Business · Milwaukee Sally's Cocktail Bar Sally's Cocktail Bar operated from 1941 to 1944 at 731 N. 4th Street in Milwaukee, directly across from the USO office. Owned by Peter Antross, it was popular with gay men and others the press labeled Business · Milwaukee The Fox (Fox Bar) The Fox opened in December 1948 at 455 N. Plankinton Avenue, at Clybourn, in an old saloon formerly known as the Clybourn Inn. Long and exceptionally narrow, it was sometimes nicknamed "the Skinny Fox Business · Madison Three Bells Owned by Melvin Andre and managed by Ken Burns, it was popular with former servicemen after World War II and drew a mixed crowd that included gay men, lesbians, and college students. It appeared in na Business · Milwaukee Tic Toc Club Tic Toc Club was a Milwaukee nightclub at 634 N. 5th Street, opened in 1940 by Albert Tusa. One of the city's first air-conditioned nightclubs, it was nationally noted for its Gardenia Room dinner the