Posted Oct 20, 2014, 7:35 PM
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Magic Garden Strip Club Is Closing
New Year's Eve will be the iconic club's last night.
The longtime, iconic Old Town strip club—always twinned to Mary's as long-running doyennes of Portland's famed strip scene—will have its last night on Dec. 31.
Founded in the 1960s as a lesbian club, Chinatown's Magic Garden evolved into as much a coed hangout as a strip club, a place where nude dancing coincided happily with lunch-hour discounts or a game of pool, and the music selection ran from Violent Femmes to Tom Waits to Kurt Vile. The bar has been presided over for more than 20 years by retirement-age bar manager Patty Wright, onetime owner of Patty's Royal Cafe, a beloved and prickly presence almost as well known to old-time Portlanders as the bar itself.
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...continues at the Willamette Week.
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