Atlantic House, the Glossary
The Atlantic House (often called the A-House, even in its own advertisements) in Provincetown, Massachusetts is a drinking establishment that has been in continual operation on the tip of Cape Cod for over two centuries.[1]
Table of Contents
28 relations: Andy Warhol, Anglicisation, Bar (establishment), Bohemianism, Cafe Lafitte in Exile, Cape Cod, English people, Eugene O'Neill, Frommer's, Gay bar, International Mr. Leather, Keith Haring, Leather subculture, Masonic lodge, Orleans, Massachusetts, Pedestrian zone, Postmaster, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize, Smith Corona, Stagecoach, Tennessee Williams, The Iceman Cometh, Tom of Finland, Truro, Massachusetts, Typewriter, Whaling, Wilhelm II.
- 1798 establishments in Massachusetts
- Commercial buildings completed in 1798
- LGBT drinking establishments in the United States
- LGBT nightclubs in Massachusetts
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.
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Bar (establishment)
A bar, also known as a saloon, a tavern or tippling house, or sometimes as a pub or club, is an establishment retail business that serves alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, liquor, cocktails, and other beverages such as mineral water and soft drinks.
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Bohemianism
Bohemianism is a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations.
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Cafe Lafitte in Exile
Cafe Lafitte in Exile is a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter that has operated continuously since 1933. Atlantic House and Cafe Lafitte in Exile are LGBT drinking establishments in the United States.
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Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States.
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English people
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.
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Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.
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Frommer's
Frommer's is a travel guide book series created by Arthur Frommer in 1957.
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Gay bar
A gay bar is a drinking establishment that caters to an exclusively or predominantly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) clientele; the term gay is used as a broadly inclusive concept for LGBTQ+ communities.
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International Mr. Leather
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Keith Haring
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s.
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Leather subculture
Leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities that involve leather garments, such as leather jackets, vests, boots, chaps, harnesses, or other items.
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Masonic lodge
A Masonic lodge, also called a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.
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Orleans, Massachusetts
Orleans is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, situated along Cape Cod.
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Pedestrian zone
Pedestrian zones (also known as auto-free zones and car-free zones, as pedestrian precincts in British English, and as pedestrian malls in the United States and Australia) are areas of a city or town restricted to use by people on foot or human-powered transport such as bicycles, with non-emergency motor traffic not allowed.
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Postmaster
A postmaster is the head of an individual post office, responsible for all postal activities in a specific post office.
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Smith Corona
Smith Corona is an American manufacturer of thermal labels, direct thermal labels, and thermal ribbons used in warehouses for primarily barcode labels.
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Stagecoach
A stagecoach (also: stage coach, stage, road coach, diligence) is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.
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Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.
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The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939.
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Tom of Finland
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture.
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Truro, Massachusetts
Truro is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, comprising two villages: Truro and North Truro.
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Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
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See also
1798 establishments in Massachusetts
- Atlantic House
- Clarksburg, Massachusetts
- Franklin Street (Boston)
- Hillside Cemetery (North Adams, Massachusetts)
- Hollis, Maine
- Massachusetts State House
- Middle Cemetery
- Milton Academy
- Redstone School
- St. Paul's Church (Dedham, Massachusetts)
Commercial buildings completed in 1798
- Atlantic House
- East Vassalboro Grist and Saw Mill
- Hotel Royal, Copenhagen
- Schwartz Tavern
- Zachariah Spaulding Farm
LGBT drinking establishments in the United States
- Atlantic House
- Big Chicks
- Blackstones Bar
- Cafe Lafitte in Exile
- Denver Eagle
- Jacques Cabaret
- Little Gay Pub
- Marty's Martini Bar
- Roscoe's
- Sidetrack (Chicago)
- Sun Trapp
- The Saloon (Minneapolis)
- This Is It! (bar)
LGBT nightclubs in Massachusetts
- Atlantic House
- Club Café
- The Alley Bar
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_House
Also known as A-House.