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Collective Media Group takes the stick on Air Warriors for Smithsonian Channel
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Lords of an Underground Empire
The Old Plantation is the hottest bar in town. But only after surviving arson, harassment, and sabotage.
By
David Bauer
Published in
D Magazine
June
1979
Photography Courtesy of Ed Oakley
J
anuary, 1976: The two men stood in the dim light and surveyed their new domain. The place was looking good. It was late Saturday night and construction was right on schedule. The bars were nearly complete, all the equipment installed; the big dance floor was laid in the disco. Tomorrow they would put down the carpet and begin fine-tuning the place for their grand opening, just five days away. The two men had high hopes for their new nightclub here on Cedar Springs. It was going to be, they felt, the best gay bar in Dallas, the liveliest disco around. There was an established competitor just blocks away, but they were confident. The new Old Plantation would be a hit. They took one last look around, smiled at each other, and left.
with the mta or metropolitan transportation authority at 7:00 a.m., which prompted the evacuations and road blocks. police and the mta says they took this seriously because a rice cooker does look similar to a pressure cooker which we have reported caused deaths and injuries after being made to explosive devices. the nypd counter terrorism unit sent out a tweet this afternoon saying we have a lot of our officers and men and women out at the subway station. if you see an extra presence, don t be alarmed. we re out on patrol with what happens today in an extra way. charles? charles: thanks. the question now, is this some type of hoax or a dry run? bob strange is from the new york anti-terrorism task force. he joins us now. before i ask you about that, i heard interchanging the term rice cooker and pressure cooker. i was under the assumption that they turn a rice cooker to a pressure cooker. we saw something like this a
job. not only in terms of their own oh. charles: a serious black eye for everybody involved. absolutely. at the same time, they ll find out through the department of justice, the fbi, the department of bureau of prisons that has their own inspection, the inspector general. several independent outside agencies looking at this. so at the end of the day, there s going to be a pretty clear independent view of what happened. charles: how surprised were you that it did happen considering that epstein apparently tried to commit suicide a week earlier? i don t know the results of that initial investigation. was it an attempted suicide? was there something else involved? clearly i think everybody was kind of surprised the way it happened. charles: well, bob, we appreciate your expertise. particularly during these times. thanks very much. thanks but no thanks. rashida talib dismissing israel s offer to let her visit the west bank on humanitarian grounds.