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Location was also the site of a women's bar in the 1930s [50] [51] Blanco's: North Beach, San Francisco, California United States 1943 mid-1950s also known as Blanco's Tavern [40] [41] Blush & Blu: Denver, Colorado United States 2012 2023 [44] Colorado's only lesbian bar. Closed as of Oct. 5, 2024 [52] Bum Bum Bar
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 ...
Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
The Macomba Lounge, at 3905 South Cottage Grove, Chicago, was an after-hours music club owned by Leonard Chess from 1946 to October 1950, when it burned down.. Chess had invested the money made from his two liquor stores into refurbishing an old eatery, its liquor license being granted to his brother, Phil, in February 1946, shortly after being discharged from the army. [1]
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the bawdy humor of Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and Patsy Abbott, a trio of working-class Jewish stand-up comics, enjoyed enormous popularity in the United States. Negro, Giovanna P. Del (10 September 2010). "8. The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Postwar America".
Delaney, 28, has been the humidor manager at Charlotte’s The Vintage Whiskey and Cigar Bar since moving three months ago to North Carolina from Maryland, where she spent almost 10 years in sales ...
Finocchio's Club was a former nightclub and bar in operation from 1936 to 1999 in North Beach, San Francisco, California.The club started as a speakeasy called the 201 Club in 1929 located at 406 Stockton Street. [1]
For many women, a visit to the Gateways was the first introduction to lesbian life. [4] The club was described as having a green door with a steep staircase leading down to a windowless cellar bar that was only 35 ft x 18 ft. [1] The walls had been painted by local artists and there was a constant smoky atmosphere. [5]