[78-L] Trivia question

[Andrea Walsh]

THANK YOU GLEN!  Amazing info.  Much appreciated!

Andrea

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Glen Richards <glenster at 2multiples.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>> The hot-Dance & Vintage Jazz Pages: www.2multiples.com/hotdance
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