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Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society

Title
  1. Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
Published by
  1. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
Author
  1. Blumenthal, Ralph.

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Description
  1. 296 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Billingsley, Sherman
  2. Stork Club (New York, N.Y.)
Contents
  1. Prologue -- Stork Club nights -- Bootlegging days -- Speakeasy days -- Stork Club twilight -- Afterward -- Photographic credits -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call number
  1. JFE 01-14916
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
Author
  1. Blumenthal, Ralph.
Title
  1. Stork Club : America's most famous nightspot and the lost world of café society / Ralph Blumenthal.
Imprint
  1. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©2000.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
LCCN
  1. 99040200
ISBN
  1. 0316105317
Research call number
  1. JFE 01-14916
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