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Tour Program: Vtg 1945 Cafe Zanzibar New York City Night Club Program Nat King Cole Trio Jazz
09 Apr 2024
30 Mar 2024
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1940’s Cafe Zanzibar Program Postcard
This is program for the show where Nat King Cole and Marie Ellington first met and fell in love
This program is a who’s who of groundbreaking black performers
You have
Prince Charming of Tap Bunny Briggs
Rochester from The Jack Benny Program -the first African American to have a regular role on a nationwide radio program
Comedy Team Howell And Bowser
Boogie Woogie piano legend Maurice Rocco whose standing and dancing while playing piano clearly influenced Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis
Pee Wee Marquette
Cotton Club staple Claude Hopkins and his orchestra
This is the program for a "Zanzabarian Nights" show at the legendary Café Zanzibar, the successor to the Cotton Club.
Finding one of these programs is almost impossible and the ones you do see tend to be in museum collections like the one in the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
The program was also designed to be mailable to a friend as a postcard promotional item.
The program has great risqué imagery.
An interesting historical note. It is commonly said that Marie and Nat fell in love while performing at this club, in 1947.
However
the club opened in 1943 and on the back of this program it references the club only being open for two years. This means that this might be proof that Nat and Marie met earlier that has been historically thought 
Please review photos provided for final word on condition.
The programs I sell are between 30-150 years old. They will have signs of wear. Please carefully examine photos.
*
All items sold are vintage finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area of Southern California.
I do my best to catalog any flaws I find in the description of the item.
I do not accept order cancellations for any reason other than I have not shipped the item in the time I promised
Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food
This is program for the show where Nat King Cole and Marie Ellington first met and fell in love
This program is a who’s who of groundbreaking black performers
You have
Prince Charming of Tap Bunny Briggs
Rochester from The Jack Benny Program -the first African American to have a regular role on a nationwide radio program
Comedy Team Howell And Bowser
Boogie Woogie piano legend Maurice Rocco whose standing and dancing while playing piano clearly influenced Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis
Pee Wee Marquette
Cotton Club staple Claude Hopkins and his orchestra
This is the program for a "Zanzabarian Nights" show at the legendary Café Zanzibar, the successor to the Cotton Club.
Finding one of these programs is almost impossible and the ones you do see tend to be in museum collections like the one in the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
The program was also designed to be mailable to a friend as a postcard promotional item.
The program has great risqué imagery.
An interesting historical note. It is commonly said that Marie and Nat fell in love while performing at this club, in 1947.
However
the club opened in 1943 and on the back of this program it references the club only being open for two years. This means that this might be proof that Nat and Marie met earlier that has been historically thought 
Please review photos provided for final word on condition.
The programs I sell are between 30-150 years old. They will have signs of wear. Please carefully examine photos.
*
All items sold are vintage finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area of Southern California.
I do my best to catalog any flaws I find in the description of the item.
I do not accept order cancellations for any reason other than I have not shipped the item in the time I promised
Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food