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Commodore Ballroom is a music venue, dance floor and nightclub located on 800 block of Granville Street in Vancouver, British Columbia.It is regarded as Canada's most influential nightclub, and one of North America's best live music venues.
Many celebrities graced the club either as guests or performers, especially during the late 1970s and most of the 1980s. Photos of those people were displayed in the hallway between the disco and cabaret. The club also had entertainers Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Paul Newman [7] on its board of directors. [8]
In 1919, Houdini rented the cottage [3] [A] at 2435 Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles, while making movies for Lasky Pictures. His wife occupied it for a time after his death. It is said that Houdini did practice his tricks in the pool at 2400 Laurel Canyon Boulevard. [5] [6] [B] As of 2011 the site of the cottage was a vacant lot and up ...
Club goers dance during one of the famed foam parties at the open-air club Amnesia, 136 Collins Ave., on July 14, 1995. CAMEO In 1995, crowds gather in front of the Cameo, which featured foam ...
Gazzarri's Hollywood a Go Go opened with performances by the Sinners, who became the house band, the Vendells and the Gazzarri dancers on June 1, 1965. [1] The nightclub's early history is closely associated with the Los Angeles-based television show Hollywood a Go Go, which would feature the Sinners and the Gazzarri dancers.
Chippendales was founded by India-born American Somen "Steve" Banerjee and Los Angeles lawyer, Bruce Nahin. [3] [4] [5] In 1975, [4] Banerjee bought a failing West Los Angeles bar named Destiny II. [4] In 1979, Banerjee and Nahin renamed the bar "Chippendales" and began hosting exotic dance nights for women, [4] which became a major hit. [3]
Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street, it boasted being “the largest and most famous dance hall on the West Coast.” The building featured a large mezzanine, a balcony, and a seventy-five hundred square foot patio. The dance floor could accommodate four thousand couples.
The club briefly reopened later that year as The Trocadero, in time to host the Hollywood premiere party for Gone with the Wind in December 1939. [5] But by May 1940, the new owners were out of business and the club's furnishings were auctioned off. [6] Wilkerson later launched Ciro's nightclub and