WINDOWS 

Lauren: I was looking at the picture of this building on Google Maps and it looks like it used to have a window. Did it used to have a window?

JR: Oh yes! There used to be windows all in the front here. Let’s see, where the door is down there, that used to be a window. And then there were one, two, three, four windows in the front there was. 

Lauren: Why did you get rid of them? 

JR: Because it was too easy for - to break in. That and also, we needed to control the heat. 

Lauren: Did you have a problem with people breaking in?

JR: Yes, there for a while we did. Well actually they - on the other side there's a window, but we walled it up and they busted through the window and busted out the wall to get in. And then another time when I first got here, they came in, we had a full house and a guy went on the stage with a shotgun and another guy put the gun to my head. That was a scary night. We were just here - that was our first, you know, hadn't been here that long. I think it was about our second week because we just got it open.

Lauren: Oh my god.

JR: Like I told everybody don’t - don’t - well they had it to my head I said, “just play cool, if they ask for anything give it to them.” I just, I mean I’m not going to argue, you know, with a gun to my head, so I just took them the money. And they didn’t - the law - I shouldn’t say anything, but I think they didn’t do anything because it was a gay bar.

Lauren: You think?

JR: Yeah, because we told them, you know, where they left and which way they went and every - they didn’t investigate at all.