Pivot Club
Appleton
Summary
Opened early in 1986 as one of the largest gay bars in the state, and located on Highway BB just off I-43 in Appleton, the location had a sizeable parking lot and no nearby businesses or residences to raise objections about parking or noise. The building was very large (a low warehouse-type or industrial building), but started off modestly, to see how business developed. For the bar's 4th anniversary and "grand re-opening", the business was transformed from an experiment to a grand bar.
According to "Steppin' Out", the "bar happenings" summary in the state's GLBT publication, In Step, in their March 1-14, 1990 issue: