Dutch Mill November - Tales of the Fourth Ward - from the diary of a Shuttlecock

            A Sunday in November, Waterloo, Iowa 1983
Saturday I was to take photos of one of the Kevins who was having both his birthday and his premier performance in a drag show at the Dutch Mill on the same night.  I took a few shots while the boys were preparing their dresses and the Metropolitan Church members were cleaning up from the soup supper they had just had in the ‘Mill before the show.  I didn't like the light and gave it up to go home till the show started.
At the same time a mile or so away at Logan’s, the other gay bar, two black men with a sawed off shotgun burst in shouting, “one of you is going to die!”  The two bartenders and four patrons were forced to lie on the floor.  They robbed the till and left, no one was hurt except for the trauma.
At ten o’clock I turned on the news while preparing to return to the ‘Mill.  The news reader blurted out that there had been a robbery at some bar in Waterloo. At once I knew it had been a gay bar but I thought it would be the ‘Mill. So ESP, while being more accurate than a lie detector test, is still not good enough to present as evidence in court.  I don't think most of the audience or performers heard about the robbery until late the next day.  And they didn't need to.
As to the persons in this photo, Terry Kilby the bars' owner is second from the left.

   

Taken in: United States / Iowa / Waterloo (show map)

Taken on: November 5, 1983

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