7 - Broad Street Tavern (Skull & Crossbones)

512 1/2 Broad St, Lake Geneva, WI 53147

 

Broad Street Tavern was operated here from 1941 through 1958 by the grandfather of one of Gary's childhood friends, Mary Jo Powell. Apparently, her grandfather had won the place in a poker game. Mary Jo lived here from age 4 to 9, climbing on coal piles, playing cowboys and indians or Batman and Batgirl, in the back with her friends Gary Gygax and Don Kaye. Later, famed sword and sorcery author, Fritz Leiber would give the fiery redhead the appellation of "Pirate Queen!"