You would make the rounds rather than just go to one place. in the early ’90s, there were more than a dozen on the east side. “As Silver Lake - and the whole landscape of gay Hollywood and the east side - changed so much I always had this idea in my head of turning the place back into Cuffs for one night,” he says. Jonesy, along with a group of artistic collaborators, threw a party last summer that re-created Cuffs in the same space it once inhabited, now home to the Hyperion Tavern. Working there was a real challenge,” he says with a laugh, “especially when you were trying to clean up using a tiny penlight.” “Bar service stopped at 2 but they kept it open until 3 and the lights went out for that final hour.
(One Archives at the USC Libraries)Ĭuffs “was incredibly dark and super cruisey,” Jonesy recalls.
