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Seats held by Tyler Diep, Margie Rice and (Mayor) Tri Ta will be on the ballot. Of particular interest is the Westminster City Council. The process of getting signatures for nomination for public offices will start on July 16 and we’re off to the races again.
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After that, the political signs will start to spread. Next up, of course, will be all the fireworks stands. Later police chiefs decided that there were more important crime issues to worry about, and as homosexuality became increasingly accepted, the more upscale clubs and bars in other areas drew away many of the patrons which had made The Boulevard a battlefront of the second wave of the sexual revolution of the 20th century. The police argued that people were doing things in those places that didn’t quite square with the law. An ongoing undercover investigation involved sending in a young officer dressed in what was considered clothing chosen to attract attention, and make arrests when one of the patrons, uh, went too far. Garden Grove’s police targeted the bars such as DOK West, the Happy Hour, the Tiki Hut, and later, The Frat House. In the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies such places were considered by the mainstream to be unattractive as business operations and therefore rent was low, which brought in entrepreneurs seeking to cater to an unserved audience. Used car lots, shopping centers without any landscaping, beer bars and, yes, gay hangouts. Why did The Big Strawberry attract that clientele to its namesake street? Well, frankly, GG Boulevard was a scruffy thoroughfare then as it is in some places today. A half-dozen or so nightspots and bars scattered along Garden Grove Boulevard offered a place to meet and mingle for that portion of the public. The resolution passed by the Garden Grove City Council on Tuesday night declaring June to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month marked a kind of milestone in the history of the city.Īs was pointed out by one speaker, Garden Grove was at one point “ground zero” of the gay culture in Orange County. A lot has changed in the last 50 years (Flickr/Dani Oliver).