Pittsburgh gay bar
The Real Luck Café, known by most folks as “Lucky’s,” may be the most aptly named bar in Pittsburgh.
In , the Pittsburgh Planning Commission approved a new development located next door to the gritty Strip District gay bar at Penn Ave. The developer’s plans included buying Lucky’s to form it simpler and cheaper to demolish the adjacent seven-story former cold storage structure (known as the Wholey’s fish building).
But the bar’s owner rebuffed the developer’s offer and set the stage for one of the city’s most spectacular demolitions played out in lethargic motion over several months this year.
When the new development at Penn is done, passersby might be tempted to compare Lucky’s to otherholdout buildings or “spite houses”: architectural anachronisms around which new development sprouted because owners refused to sell.
The Lucky’s story isn’t so simple.
Its history and endurance are an authentic Pittsburgh tale. The club has survived a series of potential catastrophes leading up to the redevelopment, including the Covid pandemic and seismic shifts in gay clu
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By Jazmine Butterfly
As I was out last night I realized everything is gone! The 90s in Pittsburgh were epic! …I mean at least to me they were! There was so much TGBLQ nightlife that we had a schedule on what bars were hopin’ on any particular night. Take for instance tonight is Thursday everybody went to Skylights (now a strip club) 2 floors of adventure…. Always an adventure for me! Anyway. There were a lot of str8 folks that went too! Mostly swingers looking to spice up there boring marriages I guess. So 2 floors one was for walking around stalking the club and dance floor and downstairs 3 bars and one big dance floor. If u were low on funds then Brewers or Donny’s place and Luckys (Lucky gave me my first job in pgh and show at Luckys).
If u were attractive u never had to fret about paying for drinks or a cover charge! And if u so happened to be a “infamous” drag entertainer like me (I was no angel by any means!)
it didn&#;t matter if I was in drag or not everybody in the Pittsburgh gay scene knew me or heard of me good or bad (Gawd I
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A once-popular Pittsburgh bar is one step closer to getting a historic designation after the Historic Review Commission met on Wednesday.
Donny's Place in Polish Hill was the hub of LGBTQ life in the municipality from to its closure in If the designation goes through, it would be the first queer history landmark in western Pennsylvania.
"As we continue to lose the people and places that can tell the stories, we perceive Donny's is a good candidate for designation and can inspire other related nominations," said Elizabeth Anderson, who is working to ensure its history is not lost to new development and nominated it for landmark status.
The two-story red brick building at the corner of Herron Avenue in Pittsburgh's Polish Hill neighborhood sits empty, but for decades, it was the go-to spot in the LGBTQ community.
"We include up to 90 emails now of support from our neighbors in Polish Hill and the broader community all sent with nurture and zeal and hope for what this nomination could mean," Anderson said.
The founder of Donny's Place, Donald Thinnes, a Viet