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The "a" house is america's oldest operating gay bar. everybody has come through these doors, so to speak. most notably, a naked and frolicking tennessee williams. >> no. that's too bad. >> everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now that it's 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 appeare...

Way, way before my time. and this place, the atlantic house known always and forever by locals and visitors alike as the "a" house is america's oldest operating gay bar. everybody has come through these doors, so to speak. most notably, a naked and frolicking tennessee williams. >> no. that's too bad. >> everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now that it's 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. >...

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 catholic, portuguese, mission community, but it was also hell town. >> right. >> they sent their rejects h...

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 was a gay town and that i was here at the pleasure of, you know, somebody else. which is sort of the...

Place again. >> yeah. it's not that much different. >> it's early spring now, but come memorial day, it gets crazy around here and doesn't stop until labor day. provincetown was always gay-friendly, in my time and way, way before my time. and this place, the atlantic house known always and forever by locals and visitors alike as the "a" house is america's oldest operating gay bar. everybody has come through these doors, so to speak. most notably, a naked and frolicking tennessee williams. >> before, did they fix that? >> no. that's too bad. >> everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now t...