Tiny red lights blink intermittently on a huge Air Force world map hanging behind the bar. They represent actual safe houses in all the espionage hotspots such as Istanbul, Cuba and Moscow found in spy novels by the late master of pulse-pounding suspense Robert Ludlum. Baldwin tightly guards a three-inch thick black binder full of Safe House propaganda while sitting at the Square Bar. It's the most revered spot in the Safe House and where many of the innovative ideas for the nightclub originated. That is evident in recent front-page coverage of the American surveillance plane collision with a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea on April 1 and its aftermath.
People love mystery and intrigue.
Not all of Baldwin's employees have a clue as to who he is, though. This modus operandi enables him to discreetly monitor the place. The original Maytag Man. During the Cold War and the 1960s national spy craze, Baldwin decided that adding an Oh Oh Seven room to his Whiskey a go go discotheque, on the south end of Front Street, deserved more space. So he, along with partners Jim Endicott, Bill Stippich and Ken Dillard, bought out the legendary Tunnel Inn jazz club and remodeled.