Nightclub Nights: Art, Legend, and Style 1920-1960 by Susan Waggoner
From the era of Pan Am clippers, bias cut gowns, and free Cuba comes the nightclub -- swank, sophisticated, and, sadly, no more. In their heyday, few destinations were as alluring as the Stork Club, El Morocco, the French Casino, Cotton Club, Latin Quarter, Cocoanut Grove, and other clubs that lit up the velvety evening hours. Where else could one dine while Frank Sinatra sang or sip a martini while Jimmy Durante and a troupe of Carmen Miranda-clad chorus girls danced across the stage?
For the first time ever, Nightclub Nights opens the door to that glamorous, colorful, and vanished world. Using gorgeous, riotously colored authentic programs, menus, and period photography, author Susan Waggoner brings the nightclub back to sizzling life -- from celebrity sanctuaries like Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club, where the rope line was invented, to the Latin beat of the Tropicana and the Chinese flair of Khubla Khan's. Impeccably designed and printed on heavy stock that replicates the original quality of the authentic artwork, this volume is filled with period history and anecdotes about the clubs as well as the stars and other noteworthies who frequented and performed at them. Today, with the resurgence of the cocktail hour, ballroom dancing, and supper clubs, Nightclub Nights is sure to appeal to audiences young and old as well as to those interested in popular culture and graphic design. Rich with color, style, and atmosphere, Nightclub Nights is the next best thing to a table for two at the Copa.
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