Black Chicago Together With The Majestic Theater

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIPc5WG0RjmJFBxrlKdiMcONoKCRQLNV46f7tZvOUJaOKHDyAsZovUO7YJKkLwPq5Yla0Nfs7PXOv7zDcUd-gKEGb17-2VLTphZ_oBxSp14dQnzlQNr44u0hrtWZMQ0NaXQGPmXaCKGo/s1600-h/regal+theater+night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIPc5WG0RjmJFBxrlKdiMcONoKCRQLNV46f7tZvOUJaOKHDyAsZovUO7YJKkLwPq5Yla0Nfs7PXOv7zDcUd-gKEGb17-2VLTphZ_oBxSp14dQnzlQNr44u0hrtWZMQ0NaXQGPmXaCKGo/s200/regal+theater+night.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo of Regal Theater: "Movie theater, Southside, Chicago, Illinois"</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> It is difficult for many immature people to imagine the variety of vibrant too bustling community life that surrounded the onetime site of the Regal Theater. The Savoy Ballroom complex, which would included the Regal Theater, opened on Thanksgiving nighttime inwards 1927 at 4719 S. South Parkway (later known every bit 4719 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive). The Regal Theater opened on Feb 24, 1928, giving nativity to a novel Black Chicago nightlife.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExn7A6Dztw0ususHbyPp-ktzWGDoAet6j-4MO7waxknobreourJjSwIM9NNYxxrsbvB8wBOqdGZkL6Xp-1SeMZYz1914DNaEu7R3GdjAHAZDQY1dGJKEtJk91HvoVxfOVAyRw5qhXTVs/s1600-h/regal+theater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjExn7A6Dztw0ususHbyPp-ktzWGDoAet6j-4MO7waxknobreourJjSwIM9NNYxxrsbvB8wBOqdGZkL6Xp-1SeMZYz1914DNaEu7R3GdjAHAZDQY1dGJKEtJk91HvoVxfOVAyRw5qhXTVs/s320/regal+theater.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The Regal Theater: "In front end of the film theater, Chicago, Illinois"</b> </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWxxKW9vWKZ-nCiu4yemNZ38Ei1Au3jJBplxsUGHXnykub9JOGmy7pME44vMIQINOqQYdiQBhB1QNlnacrsU0iBhYL9BvCtjpXE-EQvm0BZmk5aA0QvMEmDKVyTw-ynP9T-Q7ORfY9aY/s1600-h/regal+theater+exterior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWxxKW9vWKZ-nCiu4yemNZ38Ei1Au3jJBplxsUGHXnykub9JOGmy7pME44vMIQINOqQYdiQBhB1QNlnacrsU0iBhYL9BvCtjpXE-EQvm0BZmk5aA0QvMEmDKVyTw-ynP9T-Q7ORfY9aY/s320/regal+theater+exterior.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: An Exterior View of Chicago's Regal Theater</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(ca. 1941, Library of Congress)</span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Built yesteryear the National Theater Corporation, the Regal Theater was 1 of the get-go home halls that was built specifically for the African American community's entertainment. From 1928-1971, the Regal Theater offered patrons alive performances too films. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Regal Theater acts included Louis Armstrong, County Baise, Cab Calloway, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lena Horne, the Ink Spots, Moms Mabley, the Mills Brothers, too Bessie Smith. The keen historical acts of the home is commemorated yesteryear the community alongside a mural at the northeast corner of the intersection of 47th Street too Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.<br /> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYaLVP6Jsq5SPOvuFglw-zSYzyqydvi2UxLYtUQSeuIJJR7BmYBPfsuvNKb5dj3J14cWfRcMxJU4azk0LEgmrPNLcIXBf7nXdf8AjW1-Rd-shpcm-bGETaNVj6NIaYMzDsHCiqs6x5qg/s1600-h/regal+theater+interior.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoYaLVP6Jsq5SPOvuFglw-zSYzyqydvi2UxLYtUQSeuIJJR7BmYBPfsuvNKb5dj3J14cWfRcMxJU4azk0LEgmrPNLcIXBf7nXdf8AjW1-Rd-shpcm-bGETaNVj6NIaYMzDsHCiqs6x5qg/s320/regal+theater+interior.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: "Crowd coming out of Regal film theater, Southside of Chicago, Illinois"</b> </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(1941, Library of Congress)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Built inwards 1926-27, the Regal Theater architect was John Eberson. Its architecture was the utter of the town. Its Castilian Baroque-revival facade too interior was based on the Moorish designs of North Africa too Spain. The auditorium ceiling was designed to deport upon the underside of an Arabian tent. The heaven too distant castles were painted into the interior facade.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> The home featured deed was typically a 22-piece jazz band, the "Regalettes" chorus line, too a Barton House organist. Chicago's Bronzeville community is fond of noting that the history of its community theater predated New York's Apollo Theater too held twice its capacity.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlts72S4mDGAnXDFxymdJJitzQmYFQjmHSDSJG5H7j-yXu3AKa7HP83qkBeZ_q1mm1x2bY9Oejg-m214aCiXwdl2vV5jXXyBEs2Z8y29G9bmu7ekovNU3bZLXbeqMsl9gmOuuMUxsevFc/s1600-h/regal+theater+art+exhibit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlts72S4mDGAnXDFxymdJJitzQmYFQjmHSDSJG5H7j-yXu3AKa7HP83qkBeZ_q1mm1x2bY9Oejg-m214aCiXwdl2vV5jXXyBEs2Z8y29G9bmu7ekovNU3bZLXbeqMsl9gmOuuMUxsevFc/s320/regal+theater+art+exhibit.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Art exhibit inwards the foyer of the Regal Theater, Chicago, Illinois" </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Library of Congress, 1941)</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <b>THE NEW REGAL THEATER</b><br /> <br /> In 1973, the Regal Theater, located at 4719 S. King Dr. Street, was demolished. the New Regal Theater, originally named the Avalon, was opened yesteryear a grouping of community investors inwards 1985. The projection was spearheaded yesteryear Edward too Bettiann Gardner, founders of the Soft Sheen Products Company inwards Chicago. <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV038ubOtGS9x2J0Nbx3UcoELdcTz602HS6UIlg1R-c9bPnibvjmp9JNOOBhd4kEoB9rERutUdsqWpQJLk5BMfMM2heDAWJgEzJYk8h2OKTBObGRGYd5zsr4kridA-PorIHTj9NLiEnM/s1600-h/New+Regal+Theater1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV038ubOtGS9x2J0Nbx3UcoELdcTz602HS6UIlg1R-c9bPnibvjmp9JNOOBhd4kEoB9rERutUdsqWpQJLk5BMfMM2heDAWJgEzJYk8h2OKTBObGRGYd5zsr4kridA-PorIHTj9NLiEnM/s320/New+Regal+Theater1.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The New Regal Theater Building</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZk5IrfrcVz8hRd4cKZ7WbsYNGQPRXJI1h5nxCckIp9bpEJ78IgwN5UmaqBuu-_oflO8huTlYiaM4PCSzL4yht9YPBB9jI3u7rX4tl0_IvCcAbwbNblY8LxA7_kbxzmilkNAoL3Isi-0/s1600-h/New+Regal+Theater2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZk5IrfrcVz8hRd4cKZ7WbsYNGQPRXJI1h5nxCckIp9bpEJ78IgwN5UmaqBuu-_oflO8huTlYiaM4PCSzL4yht9YPBB9jI3u7rX4tl0_IvCcAbwbNblY8LxA7_kbxzmilkNAoL3Isi-0/s320/New+Regal+Theater2.gif" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>New Regal Theater Interior</b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> The New Regal Theater sought to cry upward the Moorish architectural legacy of the Regal Theater inwards its roughly $10 1 chiliad m dollar renovation. The restored home was designed alongside a grand "Persian courtyard" to showcase home too musical concerts. This South Side amusement centre is located inwards the South Shore community of Chicago at 1641 E. 79th Street.</div> </div>

Black Chicago Together With The Majestic Theater

Photo of Regal Theater: "Movie theater, Southside, Chicago, Illinois" (1941, Library of Congress) It is difficult for ma...

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Black Entertainment: Chicago's Historic Palm Tavern Eating Seat Together With Music Club

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s1600-h/palmtavern.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRVt1oB2pVMG94Ulvr60-W6PRwG1tiGe-UDlEL-KgaI9Yrm19ZkDUB2ACqfN2GuXZ8fteAEhWqCgqURur9AFArw6wGFrwApo616BLNdoEAIQSHlwXcmMcCuKADRryotcWh0US1NETTf9k/s320/palmtavern.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: The Palm Tavern inwards Chicago's Black metropolis-Bronzeville, cir. 1941</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>The Palm Tavern was a "must do" functioning halt for the Who's Who of Jazz performers. It was located inwards Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District at 446 East 47th Street inwards Chicago, Illinois from 1931 to 2006.</i>  </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE HISTORY OF THE PALM TAVERN</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Established inwards either 1931 or 1933, the master possessor of Palm Tavern was James Knight. Gerri Oliver purchased the Palm Tavern from the master owners inwards either 1951 or 1956, the later on appointment is reported yesteryear the Chicago Sun-Times. Nearby the Palm Tavern was the <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Regal Theater</a>, the mid-south mecca for Black music performers who passed the give-and-take that when playing a Chicago gig at the Regal Theater, Oliver's cherry beans together with rice were non to survive missed. <br /> <br /> An unbelievable number of musicians performed at this Bronzeville community institution for to a greater extent than than 75 years. The many names together with stories of which are inwards someone photograph together with memorabilia collections, such equally the Gerri Oliver Collection, Abbott Sengstacke Collection, together with Getty Images Collection.<br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE AND THE PALM TAVERN </b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Historians volition oftentimes disagree on when a Renaissance begins together with ends. The Black Chicago Renaissance occurred roughly the same times equally the Harlem Renaissance, namely inwards the 1920s together with 1930s. Most commentators grade the beginning of the Black Chicago Renaissance equally the early 1930s, fueled yesteryear the Great Migration of African American Americans from the South.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern attracted artists from music to writers. The Palm Tavern was abode away from abode for the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, the Ink Spots, Josephine Baker, together with other notable musicians. It was frequented yesteryear Richard Wright together with <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Langston Hughes</a>. The famous belatedly poet together with author Gwendolyn Brooks resided inwards this South Side community.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s1600-h/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPQvTr-C3ZuKxOH0XhV6yd1tmTtmR3L0W5XA7MTXjZAxEdh6K9UChWq_pVhrzlWsTye2-Jl6QtSaI49PLe6BxB6QluRUvAYhMeAlMeFaE7TOTaR3thylSN7yxNfOuwc6xqi_lk9jHuuBg/s320/palm+tavern+postcard.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Early Palm Tavern postcard </span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Palm Tavern was likewise remainder together with rest house of selection for Chicago's Black middle class. Its era during the Chicago Renaissance is preserved inwards the priceless collection of sepia photographs together with memorabilia enshrined along the walls, equally a will to the history of its service to the community. Gerri Oliver volition cheerfully indulge curious customers amongst aging chip books. Before purchasing the establishment she served equally a waitress for many years at the Palm Tavern.</div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s1600-h/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuTKIYWJ5Fxhfx7v9fOF982ug8kSHgu4wYWAKzFHN5QPWqXeqsJEp6sqsRczj04ne3cMsjWBE18Wg0exyCr3tuiTtNdMP2NOv6BB_SCuzJeG_e0VVQL46pWCXb-0TcdlFlzoEU60tk3s4/s320/palm+tavern+chicago.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern patrons put for the camera</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> This historic photograph notes the patrons are at the Palm Tavern on Apr 12, 1939. The nighttime of the inauguration of members of the City Council of Chicago. Beginning left to right: Alderman Earl B. Dickerson, sec Ward; Alderman Benjamin A. Grant, tertiary Ward; Kathryn Dickerson together with Erma Grant.</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <b>THE PALM TAVERN IN RECENT HISTORY</b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <br /></div> In 1983, Chicago's Palm Tavern hosted the grassroots fundraiser that would termination inwards the election of Chicago's firstly Black Mayor, <a href="https://conaircurlingiron.blogspot.com//search?q=regal-theater-and-new-regal-theater-of">Harold Washington</a>. The history of the Palm Tavern did non alive on equally this blogger notes that the legendary institution was demolished. According to some other blogger, the film below was the country of the Palm Tavern inwards the jump of 2006.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s1600-h/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFLgV0PQwQvkX1qtCMddkihyphenhyphendfO8Zlznp0VTwi4-rYxpbF6GoEVBGtMIZ-b37d6_LOHAkZNchg827ZtVlYmsv-4eHHPs53fvZvZvspmQ0ZN_Iq2R80Md3-eyl5je7ZUMRUv56gkL7L4iY/s320/palm+tavern+closed.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern, cir. jump 2006 amongst blogger noting that </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gerri Oliver was withal operating the concern a few years</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">before this film was taken. </span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s1600-h/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt_wHWQQJ-r02gBkZHc3_nec5cTMiDKHwCJ6rLgYJqtYQCP-7xsYK4q0dD72IXrJMgIkiICeiP8OobDY5EpU4EpAt4MtpOsZcRFvl960oQldcg8LBpjkasq64x2dSxy36xGoiz7Zb0kTs/s320/palm+tavern+demolished.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Palm Tavern grounds photograph cir. Oct 2006</span></b></div> </div>

Black Entertainment: Chicago's Historic Palm Tavern Eating Seat Together With Music Club

Photo: The Palm Tavern inwards Chicago's Black metropolis-Bronzeville, cir. 1941 The Palm Tavern was a "must do" fun...

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