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Originally Posted by austlar1
I have no idea what the building was used for when first built, but by the early 1970s it was being used as a furniture factory for Phyllis Morris. The furniture was a kind of high end baroque fantasy usually involving lots of carved blond wood. They also produced some astoundingly gaudy floor and table lamps. I think the company is still in business and being run by the founder's daughter. The first gay bar in there only took up part of the space, if memory serves me correctly. It often does not.
Here is a link to the current Phyllis Morris website. Looks like their current showroom is still there next door on N. Robertson.
http://phyllismorris.com/category.php |
That 1st bar was The Factory -- later to be Studio One. And during WW2 was a munitions factory - and covered with plenty of foliage camafloge during the airwar scare with the Pacific threat of Japanese bombers ---