Fact #33946
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Short story:
When Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ben E. King, Sugar Pie DeSanto and others fail to show for a late-night gig at The Flamingo Club, Greenwich Street, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1200 patrons go on a rampage which effectively destroys the venue. The same set of artists had, earlier in the evening, played a show at the local whites-only club, Bamboo Ranch, in the same town.
Full article:
Leroy Beavers Jr (club goer) : I do remember the Flamingo Club they had on Greenwich Street with the Flamingo Diner. It was a night club, the Flamingo. A lot of these kids and guys people don't really know, but the ballrooms that they had on MLK and on Gwinnett Street, they rivaled any one the white folks had. They were very lavish.
They had a white club called Bamboo Ranch. They (the whites) didn't go there. Nobody but the rednecks went, the really diehard, not going to give up, hate you the rest of my damned life. That's who went there. But hell yeah. Then they had Gunnies. That's another club that they had here.
This was during the time of when Duke and Count Basie were really doing their thing, yeah, yeah, doing their thing.
(Source : http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/R-0170/excerpts/excerpt_7073.html)
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They had a white club called Bamboo Ranch. They (the whites) didn't go there. Nobody but the rednecks went, the really diehard, not going to give up, hate you the rest of my damned life. That's who went there. But hell yeah. Then they had Gunnies. That's another club that they had here.
This was during the time of when Duke and Count Basie were really doing their thing, yeah, yeah, doing their thing.
(Source : http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/R-0170/excerpts/excerpt_7073.html)