Title: Menu, “Café Society Presents Purveyor’s Night”: for investors San Francisco Black Jazz Club Author: Blackshear, Harold Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: Jan. 29, 1948 Description: 5.5 x 8.5”, 4pp., blue wrappers. – only known copy Rare ephemeral piece from a failed attempt to transform one of the first San Francisco Black Jazz "dives" – Blackshear’s Supper Club on Fillmore Street – into an upscale Jazz club Blackshear, a Monterey and San Francisco native, one of the first Black prizefighters to win a heavyweight title – had opened his first Club after the War on the premises of a popular Black “Breakfast Nook” in the basement of a rundown Fillmore movie theater. He had attracted some fine Jazz talent, but the Club was failing financially when he secured some unknown financial backers – the “purveyors” who dined that night on Turtle Soup in Sherry, Lobster Thermidor and Filet Mignon. – for the more “upscale” venue which closed within the year. Rare. WorldCat lists no other copy of this or any other imprint of the Club – which folded months after opening. Lot Amendments Condition: very good. Item number: 288640
Title: Menu, “Café Society Presents Purveyor’s Night”: for investors San Francisco Black Jazz Club Author: Blackshear, Harold Place: San Francisco Publisher: Date: Jan. 29, 1948 Description: 5.5 x 8.5”, 4pp., blue wrappers. – only known copy Rare ephemeral piece from a failed attempt to transform one of the first San Francisco Black Jazz "dives" – Blackshear’s Supper Club on Fillmore Street – into an upscale Jazz club Blackshear, a Monterey and San Francisco native, one of the first Black prizefighters to win a heavyweight title – had opened his first Club after the War on the premises of a popular Black “Breakfast Nook” in the basement of a rundown Fillmore movie theater. He had attracted some fine Jazz talent, but the Club was failing financially when he secured some unknown financial backers – the “purveyors” who dined that night on Turtle Soup in Sherry, Lobster Thermidor and Filet Mignon. – for the more “upscale” venue which closed within the year. Rare. WorldCat lists no other copy of this or any other imprint of the Club – which folded months after opening. Lot Amendments Condition: very good. Item number: 288640
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