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The Cotton Club was a famous night club in New York City that operated during Prohibition. While the club featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era, such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters, it generally denied admission to blacks. During its heyday, it served as a chic meeting spot in the heart of Harlem, featuring regular "Celebrity…

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Inside the speakeasies of the 1920s: The hidden drinking spots that transformed New York City's night life during the prohibition era and beyond The Cotton Club, New Years Ball, New York City Night, Cab Calloway, Roaring 20, Cotton Club, Jazz Club, Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties

Ninety years ago, there were hundreds of illegal drinking spots in New York, and the speakeasies - which were often just a hidden room with barely drinkable booze - were mostly run by gangsters.

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Connie's Inn, pictured, booked jazz acts like Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Fletcher Henderson Weimar, Il Grande Gatsby, 1920s Aesthetic, 1920s Speakeasy, 1920s Jazz, Speakeasy Party, Cotton Club, Jazz Club, Come Undone

Ninety years ago, there were hundreds of illegal drinking spots in New York, and the speakeasies - which were often just a hidden room with barely drinkable booze - were mostly run by gangsters.

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The Cotton Club is a 1984 crime-drama, centered on a Harlem jazz club of the 1930s, the Cotton Club. Description from imgarcade.com. I searched for this on bing.com/images The Cotton Club, Harlem Nights, Juke Joints, Harlem New York, New York City Map, Lindy Hop, Duke Ellington, Club Poster, Swing Dancing

Harlem was at it's swinging-est peak from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930's. Folks from all over the world, as well as the local New Yorkers, came to Harlem for an evening of pleasure and 'Hot' entertainment. It was the hey day of Harlem night life. The "big four" Clubs were: The Cotton Club; Connie's Inn; Smalls Paradise and Barron Wilkin's Club. While they were the big-4, there may have been upwards of a few hundred others. Cotton Club 142nd Street and Lenox Ave. 1923 was the year of the…

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