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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Cafe Au Go Go, Stork Club, Irving Plaza, 21 Club, Gerde's Folk City, Veselka, The Village Gate, Billy's Topless, Joe's Pub, Webster Hall, McSorley's Old Ale House, P. J. Clarke's, El Morocco, Rainbow Room, Peppermint Lounge, Iridium Jazz Club, Knitting Factory, The Bitter End, Julius, Toots Shor's Restaurant, Coyote Ugly Saloon, Tonic, James Brown House, The Living Room, The National Underground, Campbell Apartment, Gallagher's Steak House, Hallo Berlin, White Horse Tavern, Bowery Ballroom, Village Vanguard, West End Bar, Old Town Bar and Restaurant, Chumley's, Arlene's Grocery, Pianos, Brasserie Les Halles, Mercury Lounge, Cake Shop NYC, Terminal 5, Death and Company, Peter McManus Cafe, Canal Room, The Cutting Room, Bridge Cafe, Lion's Den, King Cole Bar, Don't Tell Mama, Pete's Tavern, Dorrian's. Excerpt: The Stork Club was a nightclub in New York City from 1929 to 1965. From 1934 onwards, it was located at 3 East 53rd Street, just east of Fifth Avenue. The building was demolished in 1966 and the site is now the location of Paley Park, a small vest-pocket park. The Stork Club was owned and operated by Sherman Billingsley (1900-1966), an ex-bootlegger who came to New York from Enid, Oklahoma. From the end of Prohibition in 1933 until the early 1960s, the club was the symbol of cafe society. Movie stars, celebrities, the wealthy, showgirls, and aristocrats all mixed here. Other New York City clubs had the sophistication (El Morocco) and drew the sporting crowd (Toots Shor's Restaurant), but the Stork Club mixed power, money and glamour. Unlike its competitors, the Stork stayed open on Sunday nights and during the summer months. The Stork Club first opened in 1929 at 132 West 58th Street, just down the block from Billingsley's apartment at 152 West 58th Street. Billingsley's hand-written recollections of the early ...
