1923: Cotton Club

1923: Cotton Club Rulebook

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In 1923 the bootlegger Owney Madden acquired an establishment in Harlem, New York, and named it the “Cotton Club”. His idea was to use it as a cover to sell alcohol during Prohibition, but the place grew in popularity, and talented artists such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Cab Calloway turned it into a jazz mecca.