History of Gay and Lesbian Life in Wisconsin - Businesses - Bars and Clubs (outside Milw.)

 
Fox River Lounge
 aka Sorry We're Closed
a.k.a. Cricket's Fox River Lounge
Location: 715 S. Broadway St., Green Bay WI

Opened:
Closed:

 2002
January 2006
Clientele:

Male/ female
Bar/ lounge/ social
 
       
 

Cricket's Fox River Lounge started out as "Sorry We're Closed", a bar opened in 2002 by owner Paul "Cricket" Jacob. The name was changed to Cricket's Fox River Lounge one year later, in 2003. According to bar listings in media, the bar had shows as well as an outdoor patio.

"Cricket's Fox River Lounge" at 715 S. Broadway closed either in December 2005 or January of 2006.

(The newly established QLife newspaper from December 2004 to November 2005 caused some confusion when they listed a bar called "Fox River Lounge" at the address 405 W. Walnut St. in Green Bay, in a separate listing from "Cricket's Fox River Lounge" in their bar directory. That was actually the address of another LGBTQ bar, Za's.)

Reunions for the bar were held in the bar's location (a 'straight' bar) a few years after the closing.

More information about this business is welcome from anyone who can contribute same.

 		 


Photos, staff of the bar
(OutBound magazine v3-08, August 2004)


Matchbook cover for "Green Bay's West River Bank"
LGBT bars, circa 2005
(courtesy Paul Jacob and NE Wis. LGBT History project)

Credits: information from Paul "Cricket" Jacob.
Web site concept, design and content by Don Schwamb.
Last updated: September-2021.

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