Club Valley/Club 666

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Club Valley/Club 666

Description (Dublin Core)

City: Detroit
Address: 666 E. Adams Street
Appears in the 1951 and 1952 Green Boooks
Opened in 1942 but closing year is unknown

"Andrew Sneed’s Club Three 666 (or Club 666 or “Three Sixes”) opened in January 1942 (The Billboard) on 666 East Adams Ave., between Hastings and St. Antoine. The name of the club was originally “Dance Paradise” and was only open on weekends. Sneed applied for a beer-and-wine license, opened the establishment for seven days a week, and his manager Richard L. King, who had just finished working at the YMCA, suggested the new name after their address (Moon, 162)."

"Before Club Three 666 was sold to a syndicate in 1949, its aluminum walls, glass-brick bar, and beautifully-lit stage (Moon, 165) was host to figures such as conductor Claude Trenier (The Pittsburgh Courier) and pantomimist Johnny Hudgins (Baltimore Afro-American), with an eight-girl chorus led by Betty Taylor (Moon, 164). It could hold upwards of 750 people (Moon, 164) and once catered to the Tuskegee Airmen for a show (Moon, 167)." (digital.blackbottomarchives.com)

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