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Originally Posted by Martin Pal

Thanks CBD about the info on Cooper's Do-nuts raid. I didn't know about that.


image source: Stephen Seemayer and Pamela Wilson's film, Young Turks

This Amoeba blog post talks about those events:
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/06/eric-s-blog.html



BDiH. what corner of SMB and Fairfax was this located? Do you know when it closed?

Other locations mentioned in the blog article:

"Some of Main St.'s establishments continued to operate as theaters like the Optic Theatre (533 S. Main). Main St. and the surrounding area was also home to several clubs and bars popular with gays like the Biltmore, the Brass Rail, the Cellar (521 S. Main), the Crown Jewel (754 S. Olive), Harold's 555 Club (555 S. Main), Jolie's, Maxwell's, the Numbers, the 326 (326 S. Spring), the Waldorf, and the Burbank (548 S. Main), which featured Jazz, and burlesque, etc. There were also numerous small eateries, one of which was Cooper's Do-nuts, a 24 hour coffee and donut spot popular with a clientele comprised in part of multiracial trans and hustlers. The network of hangouts came to be known as 'The Run'."

So...these places were around The Rosslyn Hotel...

The Harold's establishment mentioned above and in the last couple pages at 555 S. Main St. is seen in the following undated photo:


http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/06/eric-s-blog.html

This does then include the Coopers where the Donut Riot as described by John Rechy - it's the small white stand at the parking lot where the front bus is positioned here.