Dunbar Hotel on Central in L.A.
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Uploaded by adodom on Apr 1, 2008
Extending from downtown to 100th street, this historic entertainment district rivaled the pulsating excitement of New York's Harlem and Chicago's Bronzeville from the 1920s thru 1950s; a national historic landmark, the Dunbar Hotel at 4225 Central built by Dr John Somerville in 1928, may have been the nation's first hotel built for African Americans, it rivaled the Theresa Hotel in Harlem for distinctive guests; nationally famous Club Alabam was next door (now demolished); Lincoln Theater at Central and 23rd was the place for big band performances, including Duke Ellington's band; countless jazz and blues bars like Babe Rickey's at 5259 Central (recently moved to Leimert Park) lined the avenue; when Fats Waller, Lena Horne, Nat "King" Cole, Fats Domino, BB King, Dizzy Gillespie frequently "rocked the house"
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enhager 11 months ago
@ccaammiiittoo1
LOL, WTH???
oh well what hell,
"How sweet it is to be loved by you!" lol
carmenjones411 1 year ago
@carmenjones411 I just wanna stop and thank ya, baby!
ccaammiiittoo1 1 year ago
@ccaammiiittoo1
And Dorothy Dandridge!
carmenjones411 1 year ago
Thank you for this history! Do wish you could've given me more time to savor the exterior of this historical relic: Lena Horne, Pearl Bailey, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan among many others. Oh, yeah, Sweet Mama Stringbean. How could I have not mentioned her?
ccaammiiittoo1 2 years ago
Thank you so much for putting this up! :) Has it gone major renovations?
cingnote 3 years ago