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L Train Tracks MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY JACKSON PARK Drexel Blvd L TRAIN TRACKS 47th St & Drexel Blvd Drexel Blvd Sutherland Hotel Ballroom Drexel Theater white clientelle 1930s-65 1922 New Tivoli Hotel Tivoli Theater Trianon Ballroom Basin St cottagegrove-tivoli Garfield Blvd Armory UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Maryland Theater 62nd St & Cottage Grove 6325 Cottage Grove 47th St 49th St 51st St 55th St 63rd St 65th St Cottage Grove Cottage Grove Cottage Grove Cottage Grove Cottage Grove Cottage Grove 60th at Evans/ Cottage Grove E 63rd St @ Cottage Grove E.64th near Cottage Grove C & C Lounge Midway Garden Ballroom McKie’s Lounge Strand Hotel Pershing Hotel L TRAIN TRACKS Counterpoint Jazz Supper Club Picadilly Hotel 1944-47 WASHINGTON PARK Elmer Schoebel Beige Room Strand Show Lounge Pershing Hotel Ballroom Art Kassel Muggsy Spanier Nob Hill Club Jess Stacy Chicago Defender 4jan44 Benny Goodman Larry Steele's Smart Afair Revue Boyce Brown Frank Teschemacher El Grotto Supper Club Chicago Defender 4 mar44 Club Bagdad 47th St 51st St L TRAIN TRACKS Chicago Defender 17feb45 Vincennes Avenue New Langley Theater WASHINGTON PARK 1950's BeBop Chicago Defender 6jan45 Lester Young Flame Lounge Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie SPEND YOUR MONEY Sun Ra WHERE YOU CAN WORK Ahmad Jamal 1938: 75% merchants Jewish L TRAIN TRACKS WASHINGTON PARK Morris' Eat Shop Scotty Piper and Bill Hughes Men s Tailoring Edward P. Jones policy king, self exiled to Mexico 1951 Stormy's Beauty Salon L TRAIN TRACKS policy stations, race horse parlors, keno games, hotels, real estate, a dairy, farms, apartment buildings, WASHINGTON PARK Jack L. Cooper was the first pioneer in Chicago Black Radio. He held the fort on Ed Jones, Jr: attended Howard U, Meharry U, and homes in Michigan, the Chicago Northwestern U suburbs, France, Spain, and Mexico radio from 1929 to 1961. Honkers & barwalkers Count Basie Madame CJ Walker School Regal 1941 Duke Ellington Jimmy Lunceford Louis Armstrong Jack L. Cooper, the first Black Radio Blue Heaven Theatre Lounge personality, broadcasting over WSBC in George Jones: attended Northwestern U Jones Bros/ Policy Kings 3,000 leather-covered seats FletcherHenderso bowling alleys, billiard rooms Cicero and later WHFC in Chicago for a period - state-of-the-art ventilation n Zutty Singleton of over thirty years. and air-cooling systems 1940s-1950s 1927-1954 WASHINGTON PARK "Mack" (McKissack) Jones: military vet Ben Franklin 5&10 Oriental garden on a moonlight amatuer bouts night - mammoth polychrome canopy supported by huge poles of Al Benson WGES in 1945–46: Al Benson came on and gold and fringed with a horizon- L TRAIN TRACKS played Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, his 421-429 E 47th St South Center like vista of blue sky - Over the Joe Louis training facility audience included about seventy percent of giant stage is the outline of an the Black population. WOPA/WVON Buckner s Foot Support Shoe Store entrance to an Oriental pagoda Horace Cayton, the director Artists' & Models of Parkway Community Ball Liz Catlett Miss Bronze America House, was an avid Sam Dyer's Regalettes Easter Monday Ball Harlem Globetrotters arrives on litter as beauty pageants collector of the art of the 1941 Cleopatra Chicago Renaissance. In Henry C Taylor Haberdashery 1941 Vernon Theater this photograph, he is showing Charles Sebree's marquee casts red haze for blocks painting, "Blue Boy," to visitors to Parkway. Savoy Outdoor Fuller Co. Regal Theater Savoy Ballroom Boxing Arena Congo Club Callie's Kitchen Walgreen Drug Store Parkway Ballroom Garfield Blvd Ada's Chicken Shack 4723 S Parkway 47th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway Southway Hotel THE PROMENADE Jas. C King Home for Men Harry’s Show Lounge L TRAIN TRACKS Crown Propeller Lounge Stage Lounge Robert's Show Lounge Cadillac Lounge Illinois Jacquet 1955 L TRAIN TRACKS Chuck Berry 1955 American Giants Negro Leagues Baseball 1941-1958 Ben Webster 1955 Carter G. Woodson's famed Association for the Study of Negro Life and History 47th St Garfield Blvd Prairie Avenue 6232 South Prairie Avenue Madame Bertha Shalimar Club Reader & Advisor All Seeing Eye/ Zodiac sign dream books.
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