looking for pictures of nightclubs, bars, et

[missjo]

Hello there,

I was just wondering if anyone could help me collect as many pictures as possible featuring 1930's nightclubs, bars, tearooms, etc.
Cheers!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here's one! It's my paternal grandmother with two unidentified men in the mid 1930s, somewhere in New York City. Unfortunately, I don't know the name of the bar, but it has a rather nice Moorish theme to it:

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[missjo]

Nice photo, great bar!
The photo is straight out of a film noir, if your gran wasnt smiling I would think she was about to be arrested by two private eyes lol

 

[jake_fink]

Here's one! It's my paternal grandmother with two unidentified men in the mid 1930s, somewhere in New York City. Unfortunately, I don't know the name of the bar, but it has a rather nice Moorish theme to it:

.

Wow that's a great picture. Any more like that? Any leads tthat might help to identify the bar.

Wouldn't it be sweet if there were still places like that? Bars now tend to be all beige walls and square chairs. I like how totally not feng-shui the place above is.

 

[Tomasso]

The Green Mill in Chicago

Throughout its uproarious history, The Green Mill Jazz Club has played host to a number of famous - and often infamous - celebrities. Opened in 1907 as Pop Morse's Roadhouse, the "Mill" was a stopping place for mourners to celebrate the passing of a friend before proceeding to St. Boniface's Cemetery. By 1910, new owners had converted the roadhouse into the Green Mill Gardens, complete with lantern-lit outdoor dancing and drinking areas, and boasting such headliners as Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker. Actors Wallace Beery and Bronco Billy Anderson also visited the Gardens, hitching their horses to the outdoor post and settling down for a drink after a days work filming westerns at nearby Spoor and Anderson Studios.


In the Roaring Twenties, The Green Mill became mobster territory when Al Capone's henchman, "Machinegun" Jack McGurn, gained a 25% ownership of the club. Manager Danny Cohen had given McGurn the 25% stake to "persuade" comedian/singer Joe E. Lewis from moving his act south to the New Rendezvous Café at Clark and Diversey. McGurn managed to convince Lewis by slitting his throat and cutting off his tongue. Miraculously, Lewis recovered, but his songs never regained their lush sound. The incident was later immortalized in the movie The Joker is Wild, with Frank Sinatra as Joe E. Lewis.

Green Mill

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Yick.
Anyway, the pic won't stay so here is a link. http://www.vintageviews.org/vv-r/buildings/cards/htl010.html The bar still looked exactly like that up until it closed last decade.

 

[bingolittle]

...there are some jukejoint pics in the collection of wpa photos from the mississippi delta..