Also in Coconut Grove was the tony Candlelight Club, a members’ only restaurant and lounge. 28th and 29th Avenues. Though Bachelors II then boasted the “delightful piano stylings of the famed Walter Lena and Neil Martin,” to me it was just a place to grab a drink on my way to the nearby Club Miami Baths. The Hamlet, located on Main Highway in Coconut Grove – at the time Miami’s “gayborhood” – was a great place to hang out in the daytime or early evening.
The Second Landing was a thing of the past by the 1980's and since then the entire building was torn down and the site is now occupied by a Walgreen’s.īachelors II, with a restaurant on the ground floor and a cruise bar on the second floor, was located on Coral Way between S.W.
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“that wants a cozy place to cruise,” with “Most Drinks 75¢” – certainly a plus for a kid who was working his way through college. The Second Landing was a great place for young Latinos looking for older Papis (and vice versa), which was what I was into at that time. corner of 8th Street and Le Jeune – the first floor was occupied by a straight strip bar – the Second Landing began its career as Step Mother’s, was Bachelor’s West in the brief period it was owned by the same people who owned Bachelor’s II on Coral Way, and became the Second Landing in 1975. An ad in "Where the Action Is" bragged about the Landing’s “intimate Cruisy Atmosphere, For the Late, Late Crowd,” open till 5 a.m. I never cared for El Carol, a long-lasting “mixed” bar on LeJeune Road, a block South of Calle Ocho. I much preferred the nearby Second Landing, so much in fact that I was a regular there. Located on the second floor of a building on the S.W. Near the Warehouse VIII, there were several Gay or mixed taverns.