Shelly's Leg was the first publicly gay disco and bar in Seattle when it opened on November 13, 1973, in a converted hotel in Pioneer Square at the intersection of South Main Street and Alaskan Way. Co-owner Shelly Bauman (1947-2010) funded the wildly popular party spot with settlement money from an accident at the Bastille Day Parade in 1970 which caused the loss of both her leg and dancing career. The bar flourished until a 1975 fire and consequent financial disputes among the three owners led to the club's seizure by the Internal Revenue Service in 1979.

This 1974 poster for Shelly's Leg advertises the bar as "Seattle's only discotheque and tavern," with live dancing nightly and half-price noon to midnight parties every Sunday.

Caption information source: http://www.seattlestar.net/2014/11/november-13-1973-shellys-leg

Credit on poster: Screened by David Pitzer