(Back when there were nightclubs that featured such names.) Great piano players, sing-alongs, sloppy drunks, wide-eyed hunky guys from New Hampshire, transvestites (that's what they were-not drag queens, just guys who liked to dress up and go out for a fancy night on the town), a few druggies, a very handsome bartender, sweet guys, hustlers, Back Bay snobs, a drop-dead romantic who would hold my hand and tell me he loved being next to me, a guy with no arms who drank champagne by lifting the glass with his feet, the guy with the voice like Frank Sinatra, the zonked out drunks (me, a few times), the legendary coat check lady (Mary?), and a few pro athletes from what I understand. Down the street from the famous Jacques, it was for "gentleman" and word was that Liberace and Judy Garland would go there after nearby nightclub engagements. My friends would laugh at me because of its reputation for older men who would paw and flirt with anyone under 30, but the Napoleon Club in Boston was some of the best nights I've ever had in a bar.
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