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Did they fix it? >> april: no. >> john: thats too bad. >> april: everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now that its even they are all safe and have cocktails so i can get my sea legs back. >> john: oh, really? >> april: yeah. >> anthony: april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> april: it was built in 1798. >> anthony: how long in the family? in your family? >> april: over 75 years. my father, during that t...

Legs back. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in the family? in your family? >> over 75 years. my father during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had ella fitzgerald, all the big names of jazz. >> how has town changed? has it changed? >> i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> okay, 1972, my feeling was that this ...

>> john: it was hell town, this is where the puritans sent their rejects. right out here. >> anthony: right. farther out -- yeah. >> john: provincetown always had the mixture really of the bohemian people and the fishermen, the pirates, the writers, drunks, all that. >> anthony: anyone who had a lifestyle outside of mainstream was welcome here pretty much. john: whatever floats your boat. you know. its all good. ♪ ♪ oh how i wish we could both go back to that summer ♪ unlimit compromising ...

And started tripping. now that its even they all save cocktails so i can get my sea legs back. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in the family? in your family? >> over 75 years. my father during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had ella fitzgerald, all the big names of jazz. >> how has town changed? has it changed? >> i think tremend...

>> everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now that its even they all save cocktails so i can get my sea legs back. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in the family? in your family? >> over 75 years. my father during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had ella fitzgerald, all the big names of jazz. >> how has town changed? has it c...

Which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time. >> oh, yes. >> this was a largely catholic, portuguese, conservative community fishing town, but it was also known as hell town. >> hell town, this is where the puritans sent their rejects. right out here. >> right. farther out -- >> not kidding. provincetown i think always had the mixture really of the bohemian people and the fishermen, the pirates, the writers, drunks, all that. >> anyone who had a lifestyle outside the ...

Gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> okay, 1972, my feeling was that this was a gay town and that i was here at the pleasure of, you know, somebody else. which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time. >> oh, yes. >> this was a largely catholic, portuguese, conservative community fishing town, but it was also known as hell town. >> hell town, this is where the puritans sent their rejects. >> yeah. >> provincetown had the mixture really of the bohemian people and the ...

Sea legs back. >> really? >> yeah. >> april kobral owns the joint, taken over from her father, a forward thinking dude, if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in your family? >> over 75 years. my father, he had billie holiday appeared, elle a fitzgerald. >> how has it changed? in 1972, my feeling was that this is a gay town and that i was here at the pleasure of somebody else. which is sort of the opposite of everywhere outside of here at that time. this was a largely cathol...

Legs back. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in the family? in your family? >> over 75 years. my father during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had ella fitzgerald, all the big names of jazz. >> how has town changed? has it changed? >> i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> okay, 1972, my feeling was that this ...

Legs back. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> it was built in 1798. >> how long in the family? in your family? >> over 75 years. my father during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had ella fitzgerald, all the big names of jazz. >> how has town changed? has it changed? >> i think tremendously. gay lifestyle is much more accepted. >> okay, 1972, my feeling was that this ...