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Auction archive: Lot number 18

Black Jazz Club in 1940s San Francisco

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$156
Auction archive: Lot number 18

Black Jazz Club in 1940s San Francisco

Estimate
US$250 - US$350
Price realised:
US$156
Beschreibung:

Title: Black Jazz Club in 1940s San Francisco Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: 1945-46 Description: [Menu] California Theatre Club … 1650 Post Street / San Francisco. … "The Home of Sepia Entertainment". 4.5 x 6.5” stiff wrappers, with Art Deco illustration on front cover, mailing souvenir form on rear cover and Ronrico Rum ad on inside rear cover. 4pp. simple menu tipped in, with 6 dinner entrees, wine list and “Last Show Special Breakfast”. Undated, but with one mixed drink, the ATOMIC BOMB, probably dating from 1945-46. The 1930s euphemism “Sepia Entertainment” originally referring to shows of Black entertainers, but eventually expanded to include “mixed race” audiences in sometimes Black-owned night clubs. While the Fillmore district of San Francisco was already one of the city’s main entertainment centers in the 1920s, Black people were not welcome in its bars, nightclubs, restaurants and theaters until the start of World War II, when a dozen Black Jazz clubs sprang up on and around Fillmore Street. Among these was the California Theatre Club Restaurant and dance hall, where the audience sipped Ronrico Zombies and Cocongas while enjoying the singing of Ivory Joe Hunter and Black guitarist-folk singer Josh White (who debuted there five years before he became the opening act of the legendary “Hungary I” in North Beach.) Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276269

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
10 Aug 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Black Jazz Club in 1940s San Francisco Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: 1945-46 Description: [Menu] California Theatre Club … 1650 Post Street / San Francisco. … "The Home of Sepia Entertainment". 4.5 x 6.5” stiff wrappers, with Art Deco illustration on front cover, mailing souvenir form on rear cover and Ronrico Rum ad on inside rear cover. 4pp. simple menu tipped in, with 6 dinner entrees, wine list and “Last Show Special Breakfast”. Undated, but with one mixed drink, the ATOMIC BOMB, probably dating from 1945-46. The 1930s euphemism “Sepia Entertainment” originally referring to shows of Black entertainers, but eventually expanded to include “mixed race” audiences in sometimes Black-owned night clubs. While the Fillmore district of San Francisco was already one of the city’s main entertainment centers in the 1920s, Black people were not welcome in its bars, nightclubs, restaurants and theaters until the start of World War II, when a dozen Black Jazz clubs sprang up on and around Fillmore Street. Among these was the California Theatre Club Restaurant and dance hall, where the audience sipped Ronrico Zombies and Cocongas while enjoying the singing of Ivory Joe Hunter and Black guitarist-folk singer Josh White (who debuted there five years before he became the opening act of the legendary “Hungary I” in North Beach.) Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 276269

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
10 Aug 2017
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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