The Wagon Wheel, a piano bar also known as "Maynards" or "Club 41," opened in July 1959. Despite its upscale start, it was quickly associated with gambling, vice, and organized crime. The owner, Maynard Mireau, sold the bar in 1961 to avoid charges, but it reopened as Baker's Wagon Wheel until 1966. The establishment later reverted to its original name, "Club 41." Josie Carter remembered the Wagon Wheel as a bar that welcomed "queens" long before any other West Side bar.