Score, downtown’s oldest gay bar, closed in 2005.
“As far as nightlife went there really wasn’t anything. “Nobody else wanted to set foot downtown.” “This was before the developers really started coming in for the lofts, and it was mostly artists and people living cheaply,” says Mustache co-founder and programmer Nacho Nava. Formerly known as Myron’s Ballroom, a hub of West Coast swing opened by showgirl Myrna Myron in 1946, Crash Mansion was the latest player in the nascent nightlife scene unfolding near South Park and the Fashion District.
If you had been one of the few full-time residents of downtown Los Angeles in 2007, you may have been approached by a group of unexpectedly friendly, quietly fashionable queers handing out handmade flyers, talking you up about their new weekly Mustache Mondays party at the recently opened Crash Mansion.
