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On December 10th of 1969, Garrow filed an application for a restaurant license with the License Bureau at City Hall under “The Tiki Room.” In the meantime, he devised an ingenious, though ultimately unsuccessful, idea. A Field Guide to American Houses. “Our surveillance revealed violations of the law. Garrow returned to his native Tampa where he settled in the historic Ybor City district and found work as a hospital orderly.

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“James Francis Garrow Obituary.” The Tampa Tribune (Tampa, FL), Oct. 9, 1984.

James Haynes and Donald Licht Papers, Dr. Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York, Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State.

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Kennedy Obituary.” Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY), Jan. 31, 1994.

“Looking Backward: Franklin & Tupper, 1948.” The Public, Jan. 5, 2016. in Astronomy from Harvard University and was a former federal government employee for the Army Map Service. He often lamented to Kern and Feinberg that things had just been more open in Tampa of the 1940s and ‘50s.

The style reached the height of its popularity in port cities along the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Providence, Newark, and Philadelphia. That is when all of a sudden the Tiki Club showed up and I don’t remember how I heard about it but ya know we have quite a network of whatever. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2016.

“Federal Style Architecture in Buffalo, NY, 1790-1830.” Buffalo as an Architectural Museum.https://buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/f/fed.html

Feinberg, Leslie.

Two lesbians, Anita Cabrera and Patricia Nigro, were charged with harassment and resisting arrest after they fought back against the raiders.

Garrow’s intentions were not to revive The Avenue and make it gay.

You’ll also find drag shows and themed parties that spike around Pride month, plus Halloween and New Year’s events at the bars. According to Mernie Kern:

“[Jim] bought the Tiki downtown… and it was a great location because you could make a bunch of noise. The building can be found on the Quackenboss & Kennedy map of the city, identified as a second-class brick dwelling and part store.

Officers further claimed they saw patrons bringing in liquor in paper bags and then seating themselves at tables to drink. An example of late Federal townhouse style, a type of Colonial architecture, the building was a double and housed both 330 and 332 Franklin. 70 Delaware Avenue was Garrow’s private residence. He considered this his private residence, he lived upstairs.”

Whether one of the old, closeted queens from the BAC tattled remains unclear, but someone did, and the BVE placed 70 Delaware Avenue under surveillance.

The Tiki opened at a time in Buffalo’s history when gay bars were routinely targeted by the Buffalo Police Department Bureau of Vice Enforcement (BVE), and few existed for an extended period of time. The closure of gay bars accelerated when Kenneth P. Kennedy became captain of the BVE in 1967. The plant closures that swept the Great Lakes region during the 1970s would pose additional barriers as MSNF worked to transform a city on the cusp of economic and cultural decline.

The Courier-Express, however, got one important detail wrong. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/frank-kamenys-orderly-square-gay-rights-activism

Dauphin, Mara.