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This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Close Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Garcia even helped Hebert get a job at Ripples. Garcia, who had been a business major at Cal State Long Beach, helped the owners reconstruct the books after a firebombing there — and noticed massive financial mismanagement.
The dozen owners, he said, could not understand why they had to keep putting money into the club while people lined up to get in. We even switched to using plastic glasses for drinks. But still, we used to go to funerals more than once a week. Eight years ago, Ripples went through a financial downturn. I did what I had to do to fix my bar because things were slow.
Agar's attempt was unsuccessful, and in a collective of gay men purchased the building, turning it into Long Beach's first gay dance club. During the s, Club Ripples was a target for anti-LGBTQ activities, including outright violence, and attracted the ire of mainstream establishments.
As a result, the club was often subject to police harassment and frequently pelted with stones and eggs. In order to minimize harassment and reduce the number of attacks, the windows of the bar were covered with black curtains until the s. Ripples also struggled in its early years with gender inclusion. While gay men flocked to the bar for its welcoming atmosphere, women, particularly butch lesbians, were subject to strict dress codes and often denied entry.
Despite these challenges, the s and s were the golden years for the bar, which was frequently filled to capacity with patrons. After owning the business for more than forty years, the owners announced plans to retire and sell the bar in early The club is set to officially close following the Long Beach Pride.
In , the entry for the location remained the same but the name had changed to Skamppies. From to , the restaurant had reappeared under the name Celebrity House. A search about Ripples yields several different histories about how the club came to be, which makes ascertaining the true story behind the bar pretty difficult.
We also need to keep in how Damron published his information. For example, the entries in the guide for were likely complied in
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