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Myrt’s Beauty Parlor opened<br />
in 1976. Like the Parkside<br />
Continental, Myrt’s was also<br />
owned by Vance Campbell. The<br />
name doesn’t read as a gay bar<br />
but that was the point. During<br />
the 70’s a gay bar in plain sight<br />
would have been subject to<br />
much criticism, but a beauty<br />
parlor would go unnoticed.<br />
At the end of every night, the<br />
bar would play Kermit the Frog’s<br />
version of Rainbow Connection.<br />
Attached to back half of Myrt’s<br />
was a theatre known as the<br />
Backlot, which served as an<br />
after-hours bar when Myrt’s<br />
would close for the night. When<br />
the area was being redeveloped<br />
it lead to the closure of Myrt’s and<br />
the Backlot. For a brief period,<br />
Myrt’s moved and reopened<br />
on 17th Avenue but closed on<br />
December 31, 1981.<br />
808 9 Ave. SW<br />
There are no glimpses of the<br />
building that once held Myrt’s<br />
Beauty Parlor and the Backlot<br />
along 9th Avenue SW. Today the<br />
location is nothing more than a<br />
giant parking lot.<br />
MYRT’S BEAUTY PARLOR<br />
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