Cotton Street runs along the south side of Downtown Shreveport. One of the oldest gay bars in Louisiana, the Korner Lounge, is located at the corner of Cotton and Louisiana Avenue. The Korner Lounge has been continuously operating as the Korner Lounge since the late 1930s. On Marshall Street near the terminus of Cotton Street is the largest of Shreveport's gay & lesbian bars, Central Station. This club is located in the Central Railroad Station of Shreveport built in 1909, and features a country and western bar, a dance club, a video bar, and a drag queen showroom upstairs.