Moonsense Closes on Peach, may reopen elsewhere

The Moonsense Cafe closed its Peach Street location on April 1.

"It's really sad," said Moonsense general manager Jo Hyatt. "It was such a wonderful bubble of tolerance and culture. We had Christians, and pagans, and the crossdresser group, book clubs met here, LECOM students came here. You could bring your kids. So many people came into the cafe that I would never have expected to see there. It was just a really great place."

"Unfortunately there was just too much overhead," she said. "I cut everything I could cut. It's the economy, nothing that our customers did. You could see it when gas prices went up, people didn't have as much money to spend."

Jo said that the owners, Tim and Mary Larson, may open elsewhere after the summer. She said that one place that is under consideration is on the east side of Erie.

—info from Jo Hyatt