Browse Items (6 total)

The_Weekly_Review_Fri__Nov_14__1941_.jpg
Newspaper advertisement for the opening of Club Congo, "Birmingham's Finest Nite Club, offering a flashy presentation with Sonny Blount's Orchestra featuring JO BAKER of Chicago's Club Delisa.Weekly Review, November 14, 1941.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

put your hands on your hips!.mp3
This LP, recorded and sold in the 1960s at Birmingham’s Club 401, features live music by Johnny Hayden and the Organettes, with vocal performances by Roszetta Johnson, Eddie Sawyer, and Johnny Jackson. The club was located on Ishkooda Road in…

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/491c30a690b302afabdeab183e07c99f.jpeg
Souvenir Photo from Birmingham's popular Grand Terrace.

Photo courtesy Patrick Cather.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ;

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/5b66caf5d1ba50bb4f49e17a8d197660.jpeg
Birmingham nightclub-goers, possibly at the popular Grand Terrace.

Photo courtesy Patrick Cather.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ;

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/7d6d3f72bab2256a6eb6669d80e909a6.jpg
Charles “Chuck” Clarke, Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck, Joe Guy, and Jesse Evans perform in a Birmingham club, c. 1950s.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/69313/archive/files/d4159f77616f02dc233d6480e3fca549.jpg
Frank Adams, saxophone, backs a female impersonator at Birmingham’s 2728 Club, 1950s.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2