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In a statement posted on the website baltimoreleatherbar. The final straw, following a significant slowdown in business after Baltimore Pride ended in June, was a power outage caused by torrential downpours. The reason for the outage was later determined to be a failure, ostensibly by the electrician club installed the main electrical panel on the outside of the building, to properly weatherproof it.
The managers made a few calls to local leather, fetish, and motorcycle clubs to let them know they would be closing, and many came to take down their colors, banners, and other property they had lent to the bar for its display cases. For clubs that were further away, fellow leather clubs contacted their leaders and asked if they could take their property down from the display cases and hold it until a representative could come down to Baltimore to reclaim it.
The managers also allowed employees to take some leftover unopened liquor or merchandise, equivalent to what gay were owed in pay for the past two weeks, because they simply did not have enough money to pay them in cash or write a check. From the perspective of the managers, the biggest problem 4 Crazy Guys faced was baltimore by the Parrish family, who own both the building and the Baltimore Eagle brand.
King says the Parrishes saw the managers as employees, even though the contract they signed gave them a significant amount of freedom and discretion over day-to-day operations and marketing. We had to buy furniture and get lighting, fixtures, and everything. In addition, they signed a 5-year continuous lease that gave 4 Crazy Guys the first right of refusal to purchase the building.
There were no other rules. But, King alleges, despite the apparent freedom of their licensing agreement, the Parrish family began trying to insert themselves in various decisions. I remember specifically there was a moment where, before we opened, we got into a big fight with the Parrishes. Should we walk away from this?
They wanted us to be their employees and do as we were told. W e gay every different color of human being in there in the photo shoot. It was very diverse, and different ethnic backgrounds. But everything that they did, they fought us on eagle, especially marketing. They tried to control our marketing like we were a franchise, and we are not a franchise.
This is our grand opening weekend. We have tickets for sale on our website. He then says that the Parrishes demanded that 4 Crazy Guys sign a new license agreement, and when they refused to, the Parrishes allegedly shut down access to the Baltimore Eagle website and Facebook page, prompting the managers to start their own website, baltimoreleatherbar.
Baltimore also says that his father, Charles Parrish, went to the Eagle as it was club and found chaos. This is a matter of checks being bounced and eagles not being honored. And during that time, they became increasingly hostile.
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Parrish accuses the Eagle staff of clogging two of the drains by emptying out the open bottles of liquor and leaving smashed glass and empty bottles all over the floor. He takes issue with the way the bar was closed down and the state in which it was left when they vacated the building.
While he acknowledges the items belong to the various clubs, they were in the custodianship of the Eagle.