Then he kept coming on over the song with something like 'come on party people, get out on the dance floor.' Lame! If they played some decent music then people would dance without his lame 'encouragement'. This was the last time they get my money. I'll go to Central or drive to DC if I want to party.The Hippo, one of Baltimore’s oldest gay and lesbian clubs, is apparently hanging up its disco ball.Ĭhuck Bowers, owner of the Mount Vernon nightspot, is negotiating to turn the building at the southwest corner of Charles and Eager streets into a CVS store, according to city representatives who have been in contact with CVS Health Corp. If CVS goes through with the project, it would mean the end of the nightclub, which opened in 1972 and has been a venerable anchor institution for Mount Vernon’s “gayborhood.” MONDAY, MAY 11, UPDATE: Chuck Bowers confirmed today in a statement to the media that The Hippo will close “sometime in the fall of 2015” and will reopen as a CVS pharmacy. With a large dance floor, video bar and saloon, The Hippo has been the setting for a wide range of events, as well as the backdrop for annual Pride block parties.
