My Life in Pictures

By fotoflingscot

Fire Island

Today's Covid-19 Exercise Walk took me to Princes Street where, given it is LGBT History Month, I took the opportunity of snapping the building (currently occupied by Waterstones) that used to house from 1978 to 1988 the popular gay nightclub "Fire Island". 
On the ground floor a side door beside the former "Watches of Switzerland" shop led to the upper floors where the nightclub operated. The club was founded by entrepreneur Bill Grainger and attracted big names like The Village People, Eartha Kitt and The Three Degrees.
The Extra Photo is an archive shot of the same building probably dating from the turn of the century. 

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