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Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society
- Title
- Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
- Author
- Blumenthal, Ralph.
- Publication
- Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 01-14916 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 296 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The author tells the story of the fabled Stork Club and of "Sherman Billingsley, a former bootlegger from Oklahoma who arrived in New York a few months afters Prohibition, founded the Stork as a Jazz Age speakeasy, and fought running battles against gangsters for years."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Stork Club nights -- Bootlegging days -- Speakeasy days -- Stork Club twilight -- Afterward -- Photographic credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-14916
- ISBN
- 0316105317
- LCCN
- 99040200
- OCLC
- 42072089
- Author
- Blumenthal, Ralph.
- Title
- Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
- Imprint
- Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-14916