Latin Quarter (nightclub)
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The Latin Quarter was a nightclub in New York City. The club originally opened in 1942 and featured big-name acts. In recent years, it had been a focus of hip hop, reggaeton and salsa music. Its histo
Latin Quarter logo from the 1960s
US Army officers enjoy a night on the town at the Latin Quarter in New York City before they ship out during World War II.
LQ in January 2009
Cotton Club
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The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. The club oper
Latin Quarter (nightclub)
…between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It opened as the Palais Royale in 1900, and Norman Bel Geddes had designed the interior. It was then occupied by the Cotton Club, which had left Harlem, from 1936 to 1940. Concert promoter Lou Walters bought the Cotton Club and reopened it in 1942 as the Latin Quarter, with a…
Duke Ellington was one of the original Cotton Club orchestra leaders.
Adelaide Hall, star of the Cotton Club
Cab Calloway was another of the original Cotton Club performers.
Ethel Waters starred at the Cotton Club