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Business · Milwaukee Diplomat Musical Lounge The Diplomat Musical Lounge opened in August 1958 in a former Pabst tied-house saloon on Milwaukee's West Juneau Avenue. After new operators redecorated the space in vivid colors, it became a flashy, Business · Milwaukee Empire Lounge Empire Lounge was a small corner bar at 716 N. Plankinton Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, opened in 1940 and remodeled into a piano bar during the 1950s. Owned for many years by Alex Korchunoff, it deve Business · Milwaukee Red Room Bar The Red Room Bar operated in the Plankinton Arcade at 161 W. Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee from about 1935 into the 1950s, and is remembered by many older gay men as a longtime hangout. It was earlier Business · Milwaukee Ten Hundred East The earliest located advertising dates to January 1973, but patrons recalled it being open several years earlier. Before the 1973 arrival of the city's first large gay disco, the Factory, it was widel