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At five in the morning of Wednesday, September 12, 1973, an explosion leveled the Arch Café at 1737 Main Street in downtown Springfield. In the newspaper photo published the next time, it looks favor the walls blew out and the roof lifted, broke, and then resettled onto what had just become a pile of rubble. No one was injured in the blast, but the building, which the owners estimated to be worth $90,000, was totally destroyed.
Sixty windows were blown out in the side of the Hotel Charles right next to the Café. Changes in the transportation patterns from rail to automobiles had brought the once haughty Hotel to neighboring financial collapse, but it was a handy tryst place for subcultural denizens. There was additional damage to the Army&Navy store on the ground floor of the Hotel and to the Friendly Tavern across the street.
The Arch Café was named after the prodigious granite railroad arch that flanked the café’s south side and carried the Penn Central railroad over Main Road. The Arch Cafe was so successfully known to authorities that it was described in the Springfield Union as “long acknowledged as a gathering place for homosexuals in the Connecticut Valley and beyond.” Men had
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Ronald Reagan might be credited with prompting the inception of Northampton’s Identity festival March. Following his swearing-in as the 40th U.S. President on Jan. 20, 1981, the Valley experienced growing violence toward women, gays and people of color. The Valley Women’s Voice, an area feminist monthly newspaper, carried reports of this from alternative news sources across the country during 1981.
Springfield experienced an increase in forcible rapes that was three times the average national increase (though that also rose). One analysis of that increase in rape in California found that 30% of the victims were lesbians. Within a two-month period, six women drivers in Springfield and South Hadley were forced off the road or lured to stop their cars then beaten and raped by the “tire iron man.”
The Puerto Rican communities in the North End of Springfield and Holyoke were targets of arson. In the first eight months of 1981, 85 fires in Holyoke left 600 people homeless and killed six residents. That same summer, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in Westfield.
Accompanying this direct violence was federal and state legislation in 1980-81 that denied gays immigration an
Downtown Springfield gay bar to finish soon ahead of 'demolition,' says management
Over the weekend, one of Springfield's three gay bars announced that its long-anticipated closure would happen in about a month.
According to a statement posted to Touché Nightclub's Facebook account preceding Saturday evening, the bar's last day of business will be in four to six weeks, "due to the impending demolition of our building."
"This will mark the end of decades of history for this community," the announcement stated.
But the owner of Touché's downtown building, Jack Ballew, said Monday that while the concrete estate is under contract for sale, the sale has not yet closed.
Ballew said that he does not know when the buyer, a Springfield-based development rigid called the Vecino Group, plans to tear down the building.
The property is worth $237,900 for the building and its half-acre site, according to the Greene County Assessor's 2018 appraisal.
Seeking information on when demolition might happen, the News-Leader reached out to a Vecino Group official three times for this report but has not yet heard back.
Reached by the News-Leader on Monday, Touché manager Jacob Welch said that he an