| Title |
Brief History of The Original Tin Angel Bar and Jerry's Brown Bag |
| Description |
Text document giving a brief overview of the Tin Angel Bar and Jerry's Brown Bag Tavern's History |
| Subject |
Cross Dressing, Gay Bars, Female Impersonation, Drag Queens, Fem-Mimics, Drag, Utah Gay Bars, The Tin Angel, preliminary research, Research notes |
| Creator |
Connell O'Donovan |
| Date |
2021-10-10 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5780993/salt-lake-city.html |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
Connell O'Donovan |
| Rights Management |
researchers must receive copyright permission from Connell O'Donovan; and UHS. |
| Contributor |
The Tin Angel |
| Collection Number and Name |
Mss D 5 Connell O'Donovan LGBT Utah History Collection |
| Holding Institution |
Utah Historical Society |
| Abstract |
Converted from .docx to .pdf for Compatibility |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
research notes |
| Extent |
1 page |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation |
Bars |
| Is Part of |
Tin Angel Bar 1967 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cbc070 |
| Metadata Cataloger |
Megan Garcia |
| Setname |
dha_cdlgbtuh |
| ID |
2573893 |
| OCR Text |
Show Tin Angel – Drag Queen Cabaret, 1967-??? Tin Angel Feb 1964-Nov 1968 The Fem-Mimics Our Chef and co-owner Jerry Liedtke Jr. grew up in the bar business. His father, Jerry Sr., owned bars here in Salt Lake in the Sixties and Seventies. In 1967 Jerry Sr. opened a quiet little bar on State Street between Third and Fourth South on the East side of the street and named it Tin Angel. 337 ["340"] S. State in 1970 - "Jerry's Brown Bag" tavern Jerry Sr. was just starting out and business was slow so when a man approached him about doing a fashion show there on Friday nights he thought he didn't have anything to lose and booked him for the following week. The man arrived to get set up. His hair was piled up in a tall beehive and costume jewels glinted from his ears. In poured a bar full of 1967 Drag Queens with Bitch Sticks, Bouffants and Feather Boas. Jerry Sr. was surprised to find that the planner of the event had neglected to mention that his show was a Cross Dressing extravaganza and came with an audience hungry to see the routine. What was a bartender to do? Surrender to the party and The Tin Angel became famous as Salt Lake’s main venue for Drag Queen Cabaret. Eventually, the lease ran out, the party died down and The Tin Angel was torn down to make room for parking. http://thetinangel.com |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cbc070 |
