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Philly: Venture Inn
[I'm going to make "tucked away" the official starting phrase of every post from now until eternity.]
Tucked away in an alley called Camac Street (our first palindromic alley!) in downtown Philadelphia lies an artificially old-looking Inn that is actually simply a nice old-fashioned gay bar called The Venture Inn. Despite the artificiality of some of [...]
Posted: September 16th, 2008 under Current, Historical.
Tags: baby, bar, Barrymore, Camac, dropbox, gay, ghost, Philadelphia, Philly, Steven, Underground Railroad, Venture Inn
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Lan Kwai Fong (Matchmakers Alley)
The literal translation of this alley used to be "medium person lane" (or Mui Yan Hong), medium people being the go-betweens for arranging marriages. But "medium person lane" sounds like something you’d find at a highly specific toll plaza, so let’s go with Matchmakers’ Alley.
Lan Kwai Fong 蘭桂坊
Photo by David Serra
This [...]
Posted: August 29th, 2008 under Current, Historical.
Tags: crowd, disco, gay, Hong Kong, matchmaker, nonlinear
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