Maxine's
Name of Bar/Club: Maxine's
Location: 243 So. Camac Street, Philadelphia PA 19107
Period in existence: 1936 to 1979, a speakeasy before that
Philadelphians who spent time at this bar or club:
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Aarons' first brush with gay life was visiting a bar called
Maxine's in Philadelphia while on leave from the Navy in 1955.
"I walked in and it was like Dorothy coming from sepia-tone
Kansas to the Land of Oz, all of a sudden it was Technicolor,"
recalled Aarons in the October interview. "There were these
gorgeous men. In those days, everyone went out in jackets and ties.
There was a piano bar and a guy singing show tunes and I thought,
'Oh my God, there are other people, not just me!' And that started
me off. I was a gay in the military."
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