Gay bars in palo alto ca

It looks like you aren't It's a dry city. Palo Alto just seems like a logical place to. Just seems so unusual for a city that just passed DP benefits I think and that has a somewhat liberal university right next door.

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Let's see, there was The Garden on one side, and Whiskey Gulch on the other Let's see, " there was The Garden on one side, and Whiskey Gulch on the " other I've been to BQ many times. Today the building is some sort of social services agency, so I guess the use hasn't changed all that much. Anyhow, The Garden also brings back memories, too.

The one time I went to Whiskey Gulch some madman chased people around the bar with a drawn knife. I figured that much excitement I didn't need. There used to be a gay cafe called "Emerald City Cafe". It was located in one of the commercial street level units of a condo building. It went under. It is very difficult for any business to afford to reside in Palo Alto, just the same as it is for most people to live there.

The Emerald City was busy in the evenings, but languished palo the day. A lot of people liked the idea of having a gay place to meet that wasn't a bar. If any place had a chance to make it as a gay meeting place in Palo Alto, it did. I think basically there just would not be enough subscription to such a place to make it fly on gay expensive real estate.

Another problem experienced by the Cafe, by the way, was its lack of acceptance by many of the residents of the building. The owner a personal friend of mine alto a fair amount of energy dealing with the complaints of tenants who, in our opinion, just hated the idea of a gay establishment in the building.

The Cafe was often blamed for the bar of anyone talking loudly on the sidewalk after 10pm; though most of that noise came from the drunken frat boys returning to Stanford from Gordon Biersch, located just around the corner. The point I'm trying to get at is that while Palo Alto may maintain a liberal veneer, that veneer is still rather thin.

The Emerald City cafe tried to be too overtly gay for many Palo Altans' stomachs. Have you ever heard it referred to as "Shallow Alto"? Now for a little bit of history. Years ago, there was a gay bar and a gay bath house near each other in the Whiskey Gulch section of East Palo Alto that's the section you go through if you get off at University Ave going toward Stanford.

The Whiskey Gulch saloon made it into the late 80's but from what I hear is now a straight bar. Alma Street near Stanford.