Don Holland seeks to keep his ManRay licensing during an Aug. Peter Valentine is at right, wearing an old ManRay tag. Photo: Marc Levy. It was announced via social media by his daughter, Cheryl Holland. Holland was Monday and then a funeral mass at St.
The burial is in St. A condolence book will be available at ManRay, 40 Prospect St. I mean, just it just broke my heart. Photo: Annie Schugart. ManRay, a nightclub, bar and goth fetish scene, lasted at 21 Brookline St. Holland tried several resurrections in Central Square over the years and in finally secured 40 Prospect St.
The club finally reopened there on Jan. Dancing Thursday at the new ManRay. People were able to walk in and find their authentic selves and others who are like them. After getting out of the U. After she died in , he was left with three stepchildren as well as his own two kids to raise. Even Sundays he worked.
He had to hire somebody to take care of us. It lasted more than 45 years, serving late-night slices and other fare until losing the leased space in March The lesbian bar at some point in the s became an industrial club called Ground Zero before falling into disrepair; the space was reopened as The Phoenix Landing in , said Joe McCabe, owner of that sports bar and dance club.
When the Florida businesses failed, he lost ownership of the Brookline Street property and was instead a tenant there for the next 20 years. But it became his mission. And he was never as pleased as when it when it reopened. That work was complicated by diagnosis of a UTI in September, which he tried ignoring — until infection moved on to his kidneys and brain, leading to treatment for a condition called metabolic encephalopathy, Cheryl Holland said. It was awful.
