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Louis Edward Walters [1] (January 26, 1894 – August 15, 1977) was a British-born American booking agent, theatrical producer and the founder of the famed Latin Quarter nightclub in New York. He was the father of journalist Barbara Walters .
Concert promoter Lou Walters bought the Cotton Club and reopened it in 1942 as the Latin Quarter, with a French New Orleans theme. [6] He was the father of television journalist, host and producer Barbara Walters.
Walters’ father Lou — a latter-day Ziegfeld — made his fortune running nightclubs, most notably Lou Walters’ Latin Quarter on Palm Island in Miami Beach, where, from 1939 to 1959, until it ...
In the post-World War II economic expansion and sprawl in South Florida, Palm and Hibiscus Island became the site of the Famous Latin Quarter Nightclub in the 1940s and 1950s. Owned by Lou Walters, father of journalist Barbara Walters , the Latin Quarter was a mid-century mecca for big-named entertainers who performed for winter crowds of ...
Born in Boston on Sept. 25, 1929, Barbara Jill Walters got to see the rich and famous up close as the daughter of nightlife impresario Lou Walters, who owned clubs up and down the East Coast.
Walters' father was born in London in 1898 and moved to New York City with his father and two brothers on August 28, 1909. His mother and four sisters arrived there the following year. [26] During Walters' childhood, her father managed the Latin Quarter nightclub in Boston, which was owned in partnership with E. M. Loew.
The nightclub was renamed the Latin Quarter and eventually shut down in the 1950s before reopening as the Hard Rock. After the Hard Rock closed in the 1970s, Mackey opened his nightclub in 1978.
[5] [6] Her early career started in night clubs as a dancer and singer for Barbara Walters' father, impresario Lou Walters, at the Latin Quarter. She later headlined Nouvelle Eve, a Parisian cabaret show import, at the Hotel El Rancho Vegas from 1951 to 1952. [7] [8] She was cast in a production of Hello, Dolly!