[78-L] Trivia question

[Glen Richards]

Hi Andrea,

Thanks to Google, I found this:

Perhaps the best-known nightclub was Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club, 
originally known as The Green Mill. Sebastian was already experienced in 
the entertainment business before he came to Culver City. In his book 
"Out With the Stars, Hollywood Nightlife in the Golden Era," historian 
Jim Heimann mentions the already successful Sebastian's Café on Windward 
Avenue in Venice.

Sebastian's customers enjoyed "Las Vegas type" acts at his "Cotton Club" 
on Washington Boulevard at National. It offered valet parking, three 
dance floors, and full orchestras, rivaling the club of the same name in 
New York. Louis Armstrong played at Sebastian's Cotton Club, and in 
fact, lived on Wade Street in Culver City, in the 1920s. Early residents 
Clarita Marquez Young and Charles R. Lugo, identified the house years 
ago. The current homeowners have county records showing Armstrong as its 
first owner, in 1923. (Glen's note - this is not correct!)

In the April 7, 1999 edition of the International Herald Tribune, there 
was a fascinating interview of Lionel Hampton, who had just concluded a 
week playing drums in the Meridien Hotel at Porte Maillot. In the 
article, Hampton acknowledged that he started out at the age of 18, in 
1926 at the Cotton Club in Culver City, California, with Les Hite. 
Hampton remembered Sebastian being tired of his old band after a few 
years, so he brought in Louis Armstrong to front Les Hite. Hampton 
recalled Sebastian's introduction of Armstrong and Hampton as "The 
world's greatest trumpet player, Louis Armstrong, with the world's 
fastest drummer, Lionel Hampton."

It's from here: http://www.culvercity.org/info/clubs.asp

Glen

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> Glen, you don't happen to know offhand the area of Los Angeles in which that
> club was located, do you?  Or an address?
> 
> Andrea
> 
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Glen Richards <glenster at 2multiples.com>wrote:
> 
>> (Great, now I'm replying to my own replies!)
>>
>> That's Sebastian's *New* Cotton Club, and here's the photo you might be
>> thinking of (courtesy of Google image search):
>>
>> http://www.redhotjazz.com/Sebastian.jpg
>>
>> Is that it?
>>
>> Glen
>>
>> Glen Richards wrote:
>>> Wasn't it Sebastian's Cotton Club? Now I gotta go digging.... :)
>>>
>>> Glen
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