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Topsy's Roost opens as a Chicken Dinner House at Playland amusement park, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California, USA. It will go on to become a popular nightclub where patrons can slide from their tables down a chute to the dance floor and trip the light fantastic to the sound of live orchestras, including Red Lockwood And His Musical Roosters and The Ellis Kimball Orchestra.
Australian engineer Ray Allsop demonstrates his new invention, the Raycophone sound projector, and exhibits four short sound-on-disc musical films he has produced. By mid-1937, 345 Raycophone systems will have been installed in Australian cinemas.
Rudy Dopyera files a patent for a guitar-like musical instrument invented by his brother John Dopyera in Los Angeles, California, USA. The instrument will become known as a Dobro, a staple instrument in the country music genre. Rudy was one of five Dopyera brothers, and the name of the instrument is an abbreviated form of "DOpyera BROthers."