character” Gordon Locksley and a group of “a group of Nicollet Av.-oriented partners.” It was purchased by “part-time TV personality, full-time hairdresser, and long-time Nicollet Av. Will Jones’s column of January 3, 1966, described the genesis of Sutton Place. It was an unpretentious establishment owned by a heterosexual married couple, Harold and Elizabeth Sutton.” I didn’t note the source and this doesn’t appear to be true. There were no hits for Johnnie’s Lounge.Īnother source called it “a quiet neighborhood bar in the Sumner/Glenwood area of North Minneapolis. I found a reference to a singer named Gloria Elwood singing at the Sutton Lounge in November 1952, but no address. Jones said that “The bar had originally been Johnnie’s Lounge, then Sutton’s Lounge Lockley’s crowd is calling it Sutton Place.” (My emphasis some people remember it being called merely “Sutton’s.”) The transfer of the liquor license showed that the license belonged to Evelyn H. The first location was in the Produce State Bank Building, across the street from First Avenue. It was established in 1966 when it was still against the law to be a homosexual. Sutton Place may not have been Minneapolis’s first gay bar, but it was probably the most prominent.
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