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Hurricane Show Lounge Grand Hotel Tavern soul food eats homes of wealthy blacks soirees held in the Cayton apartment in the Parkway was a requirement of Chicago’s intellectual elite, both Black and progressive White Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Claude Barnett, E. Franklin Frazier, Charles White, Willard and Archibald Motley, Poetry readings and theatrical performances, Margaret Walker , Gwendolyn Brooks, Gordon Parks, Skyloft Players The Brass Rail Ebenezer Baptist Church W.E.B. DuBois meets Louis Wirth & Harold Gosnell from the University of Chicago. Katherine Durham discusses her art with Chester Himes the “New Negro”, psychoanalysis, communism, jazz, internationalism, labor Vendome Le Lovin's Hi Hat WGES in 1945–46: Al Benson came on and played Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, his audience included about seventy percent of the Black population. WOPA/WVON Horace Cayton's Apartment Doo Wop quartet singing on the corner under street light 58th St 51st St 55th St 49th St Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Garfield Blvd Grand Hotel Parkway Community House Hurricane Show Lounge South Parkway 47th St 47th St 49th St Calumet Avenue 51st St South Parkway Calumet Avenue 55th St 58th St South Parkway L TRAIN TRACKS IVORY COAST THE PROMENADE South Parkway South Parkway homes of wealthy blacks Negro Rialto District Negro Rialto District Club Royal 708 Club 6232 South Prairie Avenue Trocadero Lounge PROVIDENT HOSPITAL New Rocket Show Lounge 49th St 51st St 47th St Prairie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue 55th St Negro Rialto District Garfield Blvd Garfield Blvd Bee Hive Lounge Ambassadors Jack L. Cooper was the first pioneer in Chicago Black Radio. He held the fort on radio from 1929 to 1961. Bo Didley 13 yrs playing guitar on corners 1940 58th St 51st St 55th St 49th St Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Garfield Blvd 47th St The Chicago Metropolitan Insurance Co. Indiana Avenue Negro Rialto District 58th St Michigan Garden Apartments 49th St 48th St 51st St Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Garfield Blvd 47th St Michigan Avenue 55th St Negro Rialto District Michigan Avenue 58th St Bacon's Casino Dance Hall Mae’s Dress Shop 49th St 51st St 55th St Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue 113 Tavern Peacocks Beauty Shop Two Gun Pete Ernie Henderson s Chicken Shack 47th St Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue 58th St 5516 S State St Shalimar Club Rhumboogie Club DeLisa DuSable HS 51st St 49th St State St Spruce's Duck Inn Lounge 47th St State Street State Street 55th St Negro Rialto District Prarie Avenue 63rd St 63rd St 63rd St Prarie Avenue Calumet Avenue South Parkway 63rd St 63rd St 63rd St 63rd St 58th St State Street State Street Wabash Avenue Indiana Avenue L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS L TRAIN TRACKS Stage Lounge Harry’s Show Lounge Crown Propeller Lounge Club Bagdad Wentworth Avenue Chicago Rock Island & Penn Central RR Dave's Dine & Dance Cafe Pananma Cafe Ciro's Cocktail Lounge George Cleveland Hall branch Chicago Public Library Sadie Bruce's dance studio 54th and Calumet Mary Bruce's dance studio 58th and South Parkway Playhouse Lounge Chess Liquor Store Black Metropolis 1945 Kitchinette Apartments Rent Party Storefront Church Dave'sCafe Swingland Cafeacute Century Club Dreamland Cafe Michigan Theater Golden Lily White's Emporium It Cafe Booker Ashford's "65" Club White City Amusement Park Ballroom El Rado Cafe at the Garfield Hotel Alvin Dasant Hall Blue Heaven Ballroom Williard Theatre Seymour's Jazz Record Mart Dave's Cafe South Side Civic Telegram Joe Louis owner 50th & Grand Blvd 5044 S Parkway sporting, theatrical & traveling clientel mother’s clinic, nursery school, girls’ dormitory, birth certificate bureau, relief office, selective service office, the Henry George School of Social Service, servicemen’s center, union meetings, Buddhist congregation, classes and workshops in dance, drama, art and writing John Johnson brought out the first issue of Ebony from an office in Parkway dance and music training Chuck Berry 1955 Illinois Jacquet 1955 6300 S. Parkway Blvd Husk O'Hare's Wolverines Bud Freeman Dick and Jimmy McPartland Frank Teschemacher Dave Tough Muggsy Spanier Mezz Mezzrow dance and music training Big Bill Hill WOPA radio 5114 S Prarie Ave 231 E 55th St 1950s Coleman Hawkins Eddie Lockjaw Davis Chrlie Bird Parker Milt Jackson Art Blakey Jazz Mesgs Theolonious Monk Bucket of Blood Bucket of Blood Ray Nance Fletcher Henderson Coleman Hawkins Carroll Dickerson T Bone Walker Joe Ziggy Johnson's Dream Revue record label 1942-1947 5515 S. Michigan Ave. (c.1941) Coleman Hawkins Tiny Parham & Ikey Robinson with the Victor Recording Orch. Teddy Wilson Albert Ammons Punch Miller 309 E 55th St 343 E 55th St black & tan 1936-1940 attends opening in Army private uniform 1934-1936 Francois's 9 piece orch broadcasts on WIND 2x wk 3 floor shows sat night 243 E Garfield Blvd 307 Garfield Blvd John Kirby Albert Ammons Tommy Powell and his Hi-De-Ho Boys Maxine Sullivan 5450 S Michigan Ave rougher clientele than Dave's 317 Garfield Blvd clientele mostly Negro E 55th St & Michigan Ave Sammy Stewart Chu Berry Boyd Atkins Sid Catlett Erskine Tate Fess Williams and his Jazz Boys Bucket of Blood Bucket of Blood Bucket of Blood 1941-1958 caters to gangster trade Black & Tan Red Saunders Orchestra Monday Morning Breakfast Dance 1932 Daniel Burley, editor disc jockey at stations WWRL and WLIB "Everybody Goes When The Wagon Comes" 6 W Garfield Blvd Captain Walter Dyett, bandleader and music teacher at Wendell Phillips and DuSable high schools Nat King Cole, Dorothy Donegan, Von Freeman and Eugene Ammons. 51st St & Michigan Ave clientele mostly Negro 51st St & Michigan Ave burned down by the mob 1930 49th St & Michigan Ave 340 E 51st St 4801 S Michigan Ave Special Negro Collection Vivian G. Harsh opened 1932 Book Review and Lecture Forum The Poetry of the Negro, at the George Cleveland Hall branch, Chicago Public Library. "definitive anthology," co- authored by Hughes and Arna Bontemps, included works by Chicago Renaissance poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Fenton Johnson, Margaret Walker, Frank Marshall Davis, and Frank London Brown 1949 4859 S Wabash Ave popular with the "social set" circular bar c.1927-45 Jimmie Noone Joe Williams Floyd Campbell "Scoops" Carry 1933-1946 4700 S State St Louis Armstrong Jack Johnson Ethel Waters Alberta Hunter Cab Calloway Joe Oliver Honoré Dutré Johnny and Warren "Baby" Dodds Freddie Keppard Doc Cheatham
