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The exhibit was displayed at the Frye Art Museum. She experienced The Casino during its history as a diner, but still as an important meeting place for marginalized communities. Interdisciplinary artist Storme Webber created a 2017 museum exhibition called Casino: A Palimpsest, based on her memories of visiting the establishment with her mother in the 1960s.

It was named in a 1966 investigative article in The Seattle Times as one of the bars which attracted a gay clientele the Armed Forces Disciplinary Control Board had added The Casino to a list of 14 bars 'under investigation for homosexual activity', but for unspecified reasons recommended that it be 'dropped from observation'. In the mid-1950s, The Casino was converted into a diner. Prior to the legalization of dancing of same-sex couples, same-sex contact at The Casino was primarily through conversations and stealthy eye contact via the bar's mirrors. This fact made the establishment popular, via an underground network of information about nightlife for gays and lesbians, and caused it to be known as something of a speakeasy.

Īt the time, it was not widely allowed for men to dance together, but they were allowed to do so at The Casino, because the establishment paid off local policemen. The club was known as one of the places most welcoming of gays on the West Coast, and became popular with drag queens. The club was run by John and Margaret Delevitti, a heterosexual couple that cared for gays in the city. The Casino was a venue occupying the space of the former People's Theater, which had been in operation from 1890 to 1904. The Casino was the only place on the West Coast that was open and free for gay people. They protected us and we loved them for that. A queen was anyone who was gay and didn't try to hide it.

John and Margaret wouldn't let anyone mess with the queens.

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