Coincidentally, Haskamp was the first Community grand marshal of the Pride Parade in 2000, and later received a spot on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in 2013.
That teamwork coupled with the bar’s dedication to fundraising for charitable causes has led to being named Community grand marshal by Greater Palm Springs Pride for this weekend's Pride parade down Palm Canyon Drive on Nov. Haskamp hired Farnsworth, who started in March 2000 as a bartender and became a manager in 2003. One of the bartenders pointed Farnsworth out as a possible bartender candidate to Dick Haskamp, who owned Streetbar together with Hank Morgan at the time. Farnsworth would visit Streetbar to have a drink while he would do his laundry at the laundromat next door. It felt like home immediately.”įarnsworth and his husband Zane Rhys came to Palm Springs from Seattle in 1999, thinking the desert would be a good place to retire eventually and focus on their art. It seemed like a lot of regulars' living room to me. It was a very friendly and very social place. “If they didn't know each other, they knew each other's drinks. “It was queer Cheers for me,” says Farnsworth in reference to the 1980s TV show, which featured a Boston neighborhood bar inhabited by loyal customers. David Farnsworth remembers walking into Streetbar in Palm Springs and immediately sensing a connection.
