In the space’s brief mid-1980s incarnation as the Celebrity Club, it hosted shows featuring a young RuPaul. Meanwhile, down the street at 306 Ponce de Leon Avenue, thanks to an initiative from preservation nonprofit Historic Atlanta, the city’s Zoning Review Board approved an ordinance this spring making the Atlanta Eagle the city’s first designated historic landmark dedicated to LGBTQ+ history. P’s was one of the city’s first safe spaces for LGBTQ+ residents, from the time it was opened as a restaurant by Vera Phillips in 1956 until a final police raid in the early 1980s. But for an older generation of queer Atlantans, Mrs. P’s is the name of stylish new restaurant occupying the bottom floor of the just-opened Wylie Hotel at 551 Ponce de Leon Avenue. In a city notorious for knocking down large swathes of its history, on a single stretch of Midtown’s Ponce de Leon Avenue, two historic LGBTQ+ spaces are being preserved.įor folks who moved to Atlanta after the Reagan administration, Mrs. P’s in 1980Ĭourtesy of Georgia State University collection
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ADDRESS: It's located in a yellow brick building a block or so before you go toward Emory on Ponce De Leon. P." Newspaper assignment sheet in negative envelope: "SUBJECT: Exterior shots of Mrs P's, a gay bar, that was raided Wednesday night. United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Ponce de Leon Avenue Medium: black-and-white negatives Type: StillImage Format: image/jp2 Description: Inscribed on negative envelope: "Exterior of Gay Bar, Mrs. United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 Gays-Violence against Location: United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702 Creator: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Contributor to Resource: Clark, George A. P's, a gay bar in a hotel on Ponce de Leon Avenue, the day after it was raided by Atlanta police, Atlanta, Georgia, September 25, 1980. Collection: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs Title: Exterior of Mrs.