History of Gay and Lesbian Life in Wisconsin - Businesses - Bars and Clubs

 
Club Capers/ Illusions
Location: 6305 120th Avenue, Kenosha WI

Opened:
Closed:

 mid-1999
mid-2001
Clientele:

Male/ female
Bar/ Dance/ social

 

  
       
 

We have found 'Club Capers/ Illusions' listed in media "Bar Guides" from about May 1999 to September 2001, although more exact dates we have thus far been unable to fix due to limited media mention. We have located a few ads, and there is also one photo of a 'Ms Gay WI USofA Pageant' held at Capers/ Illusions in 1999.

We know that "Club 94" bar, which had been located farther south on I-94, was forced to relocate for freeway construction around mid-2001, and about that time changed its advertising to show this business' address, and beginning to use the name "Club 94 North". So that's when this bar obviously closed.

Otherwise, very little is known about this bar. It was apparently one of 2 LGBT bars in two separate buildings next to each other at this site, most of the time advertising simply "Club Capers/ Illusions" or some variation on those names, but occasionally advertising with its next-door bar "Clubhouse Filling Station".

More information about this business is welcomed from anyone who can contribute it.
Easter Advertisement
(Quest vol 5 #5, April 1998)
 
Advertisement, Benefit show
at 'Club Capers Illusions' for Kelli Jo Klein
(Quest vol 6 #5, April 1999)
 
Photos from 'Ms Gay WI USofA Pageant'
at 'Capers/ Illusions'
(Quest vol 6 #10, June 1999)
 
 


View of the building with the old Mouse,
since removed, superimposed back
on the top of the building as it had once been
(The old mouse statue was then
on the ground in the back yard)
(by Don Schwamb)
 

Credits: contents, design and arrangement by Don Schwamb.
Last updated: October-2021.

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