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Toots Shor's Restaurant was a restaurant and lounge owned and operated by Bernard "Toots" Shor at 51 West 51st Street in Manhattan during the 1940s and 1950s. It was known for its oversized circular bar. [1] It was frequented by celebrities, and together with the 21 Club, the Stork Club, Delmonico's and El Morocco was one of the places to see ...
Candlelight Club – Waterloo Bridge (1940) Candy Tavern/Dirt Beer Guy's Tavern – Adventure Time/Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake; The Cap & Bell – Saloon Bar (1940) The Cat & Fiddle – the other pub in The Archers, BBC radio series; Catherines Bar – Death in Paradise; Charlie's – Harvey (1950), starring James Stewart; Charlie's ...
Copacabana (1940–1992) [1] Cotton Club (1923–1936) [1] Danceteria (1979–1986) [1] El Morocco; Electric Circus; Fez; Half Note Club; Industry; La Martinique; Latin Quarter; Limelight (1983–1990s) [1] The Loft (New York City) [2] Nell's (1986–2004) Palladium (1976–1995) [1] Paradise Garage [3] The Q; Riobamba; The Saint; SOB Sounds of ...
Exterior of a juke joint in Belle Glade, Florida, photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in 1941. Juke joint (also jukejoint, jook house, jook, or juke) is the African-American vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African Americans in the southeastern United States.
By the 1940s, jazz music as a form of popular music was on the decline, and so was the popularity of jazz clubs. In the early 1940s, bebop-style performers began to shift jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music." Since bebop was meant to be listened to, not danced to, it could use faster tempos.
Wonder Gardens (also known as Wonder Bar) was a jazz and R&B nightclub at 1601 Arctic Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Established around 1929, it was one of four black-owned nightclubs in the black entertainment district on Kentucky Avenue.
[note 1] The bar had been founded in the mid-1940s and was located in an area known as Glitter Gulch, [4] which, according to author and LGBT historian St. Sukie de la Croix, was "a notorious strip of syndicate-owned cheap motels and seedy nightclubs". [11] Regarding the club itself, historian Marie J. Kuda called it "a rather sleazy suburban ...
Nick's (Nick's Tavern) was a tavern and jazz club located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the borough in Manhattan, New York City, [1] which peaked in popularity during the 1940s and 1950s. It was notable for its position, because most popular jazz clubs at this time were located on 52nd street. [ 2 ]