Peppermint Lounge - G. G. Barnum's Room

G. G. Barnum's Room

The 45th Street space reopened as G. G. Barnum's Room on July 20, 1978, and continued until November 1980. Male go-go dancers dancers performed on trapezes over a net above the dance floor.G. G. Barnum's Room was a popular meeting place for transsexuals, drag queens and homosexuals. The "G.G." was a reference to the Ianniello-owned Gilded Grape located at 719 8th Avenue, a notorious gay bar which operated from the early 1970s until 1977.

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