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This Beautiful, Historic Bar is Hidden Away in the Most Unlikely of Places in Evansville, IN

Breivogel, who has been the owner for 11 years, said she took ownership over from her grandmother Ellen Campbell. The bar opened in Since the closing of the bar in March due to the COVID pandemic, Breivogel said she decided to use the time to give the bar updates and renovations it needed. For her, these updates are allowing her to bring back the home that people miss.

Someplace Else was a home known to many, including Kelley Coures, director of the Department of Metropolitan Development for the city of Evansville, and long-time patron. Coures, who is a board member of River City Pride, said the bar is where meetings were first held until they were moved to the Coliseum and First Presbyterian Church to attract members under Coures said one of his favorite parts about the bar is the memorial wall with pictures of past drag queens who have performed there.

He recalled a fond memory there with friend Todd Parker, who performed as Magnolia. The two sat at the bar, eating sandwiches and trading lines from "Stage Door" starring Katherine Hepburn. Breivogel said she's planning the reopening in September to give time for progressing Covid mandates and give people enough time to get vaccinated should they want to.

But she said she is anxious to reopen.