Difference between revisions of "Maxine's"

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Name of Bar/Club: Maxine's

Location:

Period in existence:

Philadelphians who spent time at this bar or club:

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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 Philadelphians who spent time at this bar or club:
+[[http://www.glinn.com/news/obits1.htm|From Leroy F. Aaron's obituary]]
+<syntaxhighlight>
+<span style="font-family: ARIAL;">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."
+</span>
+</syntaxhighlight>