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My Brother's Place comes to life. The Whitcomb kids are recreating life in a small and little known bar where Packer players - both black and white - & locals hung around the jukebox in the safest haven, in all of Green Bay.

A Safe Haven in Green Bay

My Brother’s Place and the Packers Who Called It Home

From @WFRVLocal5

By NBC 26 Staff

Posted 3:51 PM, Oct 06, 2025

GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — A part of Green Bay Packers history began filming today at the Main Street Bourbon Room in downtown Green Bay.

A documentary style sizzle reel is being put together to tell the story of My Brother's Place, a cocktail lounge that welcomed Black Packers during the late 1960s and 1970s.

By Jamal James WBAY

Published: Oct. 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM EDT

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Local filmmakers are working with the family of an old, popular bar in Green Bay where a number of Packers hung out during the late 60s and early 70s.

It was a time just after segregation ended, when establishments wouldn’t even provide service because of someone’s skin color.

Known for its integrated crowd, “My Brother’s Place” on the east side of Green Bay was so popular that Packers historian Cliff Christl says it quickly became a hangout for Packer players.

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Far out, man

In 1999, a Press-Gazette Editor wrote a retrospective on 1969 from Moon Landings, Woodstock to My Brother's Place selling "Martinis and Manhattans in a tub"