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Mitchell was born on July 27, 1967, in Los Angeles, California, the son of a garment manufacturer. [2] He is of Ukrainian Jewish descent. His ancestors came to the United States from Ukraine, Kyiv. His real family name is Muchnik. In 1990, he married Jeannette Robbins. The two had four children together before divorcing in 1997.
Opened in 1973, Jewel's Catch One was one of the first black discos in the United States and was for a long time the major black gay bar in Los Angeles. [1] The original owner of the club was Jewel Thais-Williams. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in History, and during her college years she wanted to be self-employed. Her first business was ...
The purpose of the club was to ride and enjoy the new black biker set in Los Angeles & Oakland California. Two Names were placed on the table as to what the club was going to be called. "The Patriots Of Iron & Steel" was one, the "Chosen Few " the other. After choosing the latter, The Chosen Few MC was born. [3]
The similarly august California Club was founded in Los Angeles in 1888 when "at least 12 of the 125 founding members were Jews." But "as the original Jewish members died off, this power center became off limits to Jews." The Jonathan Club, a likewise prestigious social group, was established in Los Angeles in 1894. [2]
The Dunbar became known in the 1930s and 1940s as "the hub of Los Angeles black culture," [7] and "the heart of Saturday night Los Angeles." [10] In its heyday, it was known as "a West Coast mixture of the Waldorf-Astoria and the Cotton Club." [7] The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner described the Dunbar this way:
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Bruce Harry Bellas was born in Alliance, Nebraska on July 7, 1909. [2] [3] He worked as a chemistry teacher there until 1947, [4] when he began photographing bodybuilders in Los Angeles, California, beginning with taking pictures of bodybuilding competitions.
Club 88 was an all-ages [1] live music venue [2] that was a key part of the early Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many seminal punk and New Wave groups got their start playing shows there.