Bars, Restaurants, & Taverns
CLUB 927
Per NW Fountain/May 1981/Page 13 “Site of the former Close Encounters. Hard liquor and food. Open daily at 7 a.m. with happy hour seven days a week from opening until 7 p.m. How can you beat it? Only by dropping by Monday nights, when happy hour goes all day and night until 2:30. Dancing disco every night, occasionally live groups: Koffee on May 16-17; “Mercy” May 3. Singles night the third Tuesday of each month; cheap beer and champagne. Birthday party for everyone born the current month on the second Wednesday. Chris Penman is the new owner of the bar. Mixed crowd, predominantly women. Bar. Pinball/video games, dinners and lunches.
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927 S.E. Morrison 231-1606
Later became “Sassy’s” a straight female strip club - Owners are a straight couple.
Years: 1981 - ?
Date and source unknown
Cascade Voice October 1982
Cascade Voice newspaper Sept 9, 1983
Cascade Voice newspaper July 15, 1983
Cascade Voice May 1984
The Eagle newsmagazine March 1, 1985
City Week newspaper, September 4, 1987
ad in La Femme Program 1988
Lavendar Network April 1990
citations & references:
Cited in the handout Majestic Hotel and Club Baths of Portland presents PORTLAND 1983 with connotations C, R, W – cocktails, restaurant, Mostly women
The Eagle newsmagazine March 1, 1985 ad declared, “The First hard-liquor bar for women in the Pacific Northwest.”
Cited in City Week newspaper Feb 14, 1986 page 5, “Women, Full Bar, Food, Pool, Dancing”