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Photo taken in by JD Larson. I love the history of gay bars. Seedy gay bars in the New York City Underground blasted funk, disco and punk rock until the early hours in the morning. The uniform was Wranglers or Levis topped with leather or flannel. Blue-collar dudes worked hard during the day and then headed out on their motorcycles into the night.

Sounds almost romantic. It opened in and spent the next four decades becoming the legend that it is today. But there were others before it. This is going back to the s and s maybe even the s? Others have come and gone over the years, and, to be honest, nothing has been well documented. My barber, Rick Adkisson, told me in the chair last week that he drove a cab in and would take people down to The Blue Goose.

While doing some Internet sleuthing, I found this great message board discussion on the Des Moines Development Forum:. It had a pool table, dance floor, and it was the place for the young hip crowd. I started going there when I was in my mid-teens. The Blue Goose was directly west across the street from the Federal Building.

It had been around since the s. The Blue Goose attracted the older crowd. Each bar had a jukebox that you fed money to play 45 rpm records. I preferred The Blue Goose because the older guys were more loose with their money. I never had to buy my own beer.

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The jukebox at The Blue Goose had the best selections. It was created by Dennis Brumm in and shut down around The PS Lounge was the bar we usually visited, as it had a younger crowd, a pool table, and a dance floor. It all had a regular good dance beat, which was, of course, why people liked it. Many weekend evenings Friday and Saturday, for bars in Iowa were closed on Sunday right before the drinking establishments across the state of Iowa closed at 2 a.

Lots of people who had been at the bar then flocked to those parties where dancing and socializing continued into the wee hours of the morning, essentially extending the bar into a private setting. There has been a lot of conversation from the recent shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs. This is why I see hope in Des Moines and in Iowa.

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