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Title
Tonight! Apex Nite Club, 4015 Central Avenue, presents for a limited engagement
Contributor
Artistic Press (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued
1929?
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information
Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Broadside handbill announces performances by Miss Rubye Barbee, Martha Ritchie, Mae Diggs, Babe Matthews, Strut Mitchell, Eddie Matthews, and the Four Covans. Also Leon Herriford's Blues Syncopators
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Text
Apex Nite Club was opened in 1928 by jazz drummer and bandleader Curtis Mosby (1888-1957) on Central Avenue next to the Dunbar Hotel in the heart of the African American community in Los Angeles
"Management, Curtis Mosby"
Los Angeles, Calif. :, The Artistic Press,
Type
text
Format
1 sheet ; 28 x 15 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb1817424z
Language
English
Subject
African Americans
Nightclubs
Jazz
History
Sources
African Americans--Social life and customs
Apex Nite Club (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles (California)
Mosby, Curtis, 1888-1957
Place
Los Angeles (California)

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