The patrons would be given little hammers, and every time someone new walked through the door, they’d bang them on the tables. ![]() It was a wild and raucous place, run by a drag queen named Bobby Burns Berman. ![]() Just down the street, B.B.B.’s Cellar opened up on Las Palmas. Rae Bourbon, who was one of the most famous drag queens of his time, had a regular gig at Jimmy’s Backyard. The rooms had been converted to dance floors and on a warm night, music poured from the house and into the backyard which was filled with LA’s hottest crowd, all with a drink and a cigarette in hand. It was called Jimmy’s Backyard and it sat in a big craftsman style house on Cosmo Street, just east of Cahuenga. Three hundred men in tuxedos were celebrating the opening of Hollywood’s first gay nightclub.
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