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Location: 1511 Rose St.

Marilyn: You know, majority of our clientele was the gay crowd, but

Robyn: We had others.

Marilyn: We had others, too. You know, people would walk in off the street, and they didn’t know it was a gay bar, and then there were a lot of fights.  Jerks that would come in picking fights and wanting to-

Robyn: Got my car tipped over outside a couple of times.  I got challenged to be, “If you want to be a man, fight like a man,” and I never considered myself a man in any way, shape, or form-nor do I like to fight. 

Marilyn: There was numerous, in the beginning, or lots of challenges, lots of people coming in, groups of guys coming in.

Robyn: Picking up things and start throwing them around. 

Robyn: Yeah, then we got. We ended up with a guy in it, inadvertently, he was a biker. And he came in one night, and I finessed my way of how I dealt with people, and he was sitting at the bar, and he was trying to call me every name in the book that he knew of, and I just came back, and I would go “well, didn’t you hear about this one?” You know? And I just kept on playing his game, and by the time he got done, he was sick of it. Well, somehow or another, we ended up being friends, and he started coming to our bar and he started being our bouncer. He was straight as hell. You remember him, right?  Big, hefty biker guy, and he’d come there, and man, he wouldn’t let anybody bother us. Not all bad. 

Marilyn: Not all bad. You know, we met a lot of fun, open-minded people.

Robyn: I’m Robyn Pozanc, and I’m Marilyn Miessler.