Research Catalog

Title

Peppermint twist : the mob, the music, and the most famous dance club of the '60s / John Johnson, Jr., and Joel Selvin, with Dick Cami.

Author

Johnson, John, 1947-

Publication

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Selvin, Joel
• Cami, Dick.

Description

x, 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill; 25 cm.

Summary

Traces the story of The Peppermint Lounge, the influential 1960s Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout, detailing how the club's introduction of rock-and-roll music attracted rebel youths and celebrity patrons.

Subject

• Organized crime > New York > History > 20th century
• Discotheques > New York > History > 20th century
• Popular music > United States > History > 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ground zero -- October 1961 -- Mad dogs and Irishmen -- War and a piece of the action -- You do now, son -- Rock and roll is here to stay -- No simple bookmaker -- Going legit -- Why don't you call it peppermint lounge? -- The twist -- The twist takes over -- The original world famous Peppermint Lounge in Miami Beach -- Miami Beach, the second season -- Say hello to the milkman -- Front-page rat -- The Beatles come to the Peppermint -- Change is gonna come -- Star of India -- Top of the home -- Don't you know this is the life? -- Dino's nose -- I gotta tell youse this story -- The Matty years.

ISBN

• 9780312581787 (hardback)
• 0312581785 (hardback)
• 9781250013538 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
• 1250013534 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012028219

OCLC

778422140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library