The golden era of night clubs

[Senator Jack]

While researching, I came upon this site.

http://www.tipsontables.com/

I'll have to dig in to it.

 

[jake_fink]

Great site.

Thanks.

 

[dhermann1]

My late wife used to go to the Latin Quarter regularly (before I met her) and that really sounds like the last of the real New York night clubs. It was owned by Barbara Walters' father, and that's where she learned how to hobnob with celebs. A lot of my Swing Dance friends used to go there. Sounds like a wonderful joint. Just missed it. I was at the original Copa Cabana once in 1979. Didn't knock my socks off, but it was way past its heyday at that point. The big clubs of today just aren't in the same universe with the old places.

 

[dhermann1]

I just read a sampling of these great reviews, both the clubs and the other page with the entertainers. Wonderful wonderful, wonderful. Fascinating, absorbing, tantalizing.

 

[Senator Jack]

The research for my book has been brutal. Reading the old newspaper columns, seeing the advertisements, you realize it's all gone and never to return. Orchestras, dancers, ice shows. Ice shows? My only hope is to do the era justice and have a few laughs along the way.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[dhermann1]

Check out musicals101.com. Talk about gone! Try to imagine the popular theaters of New York maybe 1860 or earlier. There was a theater that held over 3,000, all columns like the Polo Grounds, that had huge "burlesques". In those days burlesque meant a parody of an existing "legitimate" show. The only thing I've ever seen that evoked it was the theater scene in "Gangs of New York".

 

[dhermann1]

The research for my book has been brutal. Reading the old newspaper columns, seeing the advertisements, you realize it's all gone and never to return. Orchestras, dancers, ice shows. Ice shows? My only hope is to do the era justice and have a few laughs along the way.

Regards,

Senator Jack

I'm sure you've made other posts, but please, what's the book about? Sounds very cool.

 

[Feraud]

A very cool site S.J.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I'm sure you've made other posts, but please, what's the book about? QUOTE]

It's a "midcentury cocktail disaster."

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[Senator Jack]

What he said. But I still haven't figured out what that means yet.

 

[imoldfashioned]

That's a great site Senator Jack, put me down for a copy of your book when it is ready!

If time travel were possible visiting clubs like those would be high on my "to do" list. Elegance, good music, dancing, conversation--what bliss.

 

[dhermann1]

A good friend of mine just published the authorized biography if Frankie Manning. It took her ten years of research, and three years to write. Just so you'll know.