Tags: Venue.

The Rhumboogie Café also referred to as the Rhumboogie Club was an important but short-lived nightclub at 343 East 55th Street Chicago.Opened with great fanfare in April 1942 the Rhumboogie was owned by Charlie Glenn and boxing champion Joe Louis. The club closed as the result of a fire on December 31 1945. Reopening in June 1946 it never regained its old form and closed for good in May 1947.

genre
Blues, Jazz, Rhythm and blues, Bebop, Soul music
location
Chicago, United States
type
Nightclub

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Rhumboogie Café"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.