'Then and Now' delves into changing times

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'Then and Now' delves into changing times

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Kurt Shaw
12/24/2008

It's a great Christmas shot by the legendary Pittsburgh Courier photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-98) -- a group portrait with a Christmas theme, featuring two "ladies," one wearing a Caribbean-style costume with Christmas ornaments in her headdress, the other in a Gay '90s outfit, sitting at a bar next to a man in a bowtie.

This was Christmas in the Hill District in 1955, and the bar was none other than Little Paris, a place known to be frequented by the "ladies" depicted, who actually were cross-dressing men.