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Bars & clubs / Ferndale

Cobalt

Closed – archive entry

A short-lived gay dance club on Woodward in Ferndale, part of a late-1990s wave expected to turn Ferndale into a gay nightlife hub.

01 / The story of this place

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Cobalt was a gay dance club in Ferndale, created around 1999 by remodeling the former Doug's Body Shop restaurant on Woodward Avenue. It was part of a late-1990s wave that many expected to make Ferndale a gay nightlife hub. It closed within a few years, before 2004, amid police scrutiny, and the space later became a straight club called Posh.

  1. Opened ca. 1999 on Woodward Avenue
  2. In the former Doug's Body Shop restaurant
  3. Later became the club Posh
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03 / Events

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