Its offerings include two gay bathhouses, a legendary straight swingers club, two gay bars, a trans-friendly bar and a gay-oriented Alcoholics Anonymous center.
The area has, in the decades that have passed since its heyday, transformed into perhaps the weirdest, most diverse shopping district in America-with a decidedly queer bent. Now? It's the pinnacle of something, to be sure. Back then, in the era before malls and mega-casinos took over the city, Commercial Center was a happening, modern retail experiment, a sprawling 38-acre collection of a dozen low-rise buildings that was the pinnacle of hip.
