Nobody really remembers Nikos now. Some people remember it as a South Side, blue-collar "roughneck" bar, others remember a polka / concertina bar, and then there are the people who think it was a Mexican restaurant.

Niko's quietly disappeaared from Milwaukee's gay nightlife. If anyone knew what Nikos was 2 yeras later, in spring 1984, they would quickly forget, because a new video bar, La Cage, at 801 S. 2nd Street was about to reinvent gay Milwaukee nightlife as a large dance bar, and was to become a Milwaukee LGBT institution.