Fact #31608
When:
Short story:
Charles Harrison [aka Gyp The Blood], a waiter at the Tuxedo Ballroom, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, shoots and kills the owner, Harry Parker, and his associate Billy Phillips. The club will be closed down soon after, and the incident will become the subject of Gyp The Blood, a song by blues musician Richard 'Rabbit' Brown.
Full article:
Description of the Tuxedo Ballroom from New Orleans newspaper the Daily Picayune .
The Tuxedo, a model of the dance halls which make up a good part of the Tenderloin, occupies a berth on North Franklin, between Bienville and Iberville. The bar faces the street and opens, without screens, the full width of the part apportioned to it, onto the street.
At the lower end of the hall a stand has been erected for the music, about twelve feet above the dancing floor, and is connected with it by a small, narrow stairway.
Here a negro band holds forth and, from about 8 o'clock at night until four o'clock in the morning, plays varied rags, conspicuous for being the latest in popular music, interspersed with compositions by the musicians themselves.
The band has a leader who grotesquely prompts the various pieces, which generally constitute several brass pieces, a violin, guitar, piccolo and a piano.
Tweet this Fact
The Tuxedo, a model of the dance halls which make up a good part of the Tenderloin, occupies a berth on North Franklin, between Bienville and Iberville. The bar faces the street and opens, without screens, the full width of the part apportioned to it, onto the street.
At the lower end of the hall a stand has been erected for the music, about twelve feet above the dancing floor, and is connected with it by a small, narrow stairway.
Here a negro band holds forth and, from about 8 o'clock at night until four o'clock in the morning, plays varied rags, conspicuous for being the latest in popular music, interspersed with compositions by the musicians themselves.
The band has a leader who grotesquely prompts the various pieces, which generally constitute several brass pieces, a violin, guitar, piccolo and a piano.