Sunset Cafe
Title
Sunset Cafe
Subject
One of the most important jazz clubs in America during the late teens and early 1920s.
315-317 E. 35th St.
Description
Critically important "black and tan" venue for interracial jazz audiences in Chicago. The building, a large garage-style structure, was declared a landmark site in Chicago in September 1998.
Creator
Jo de Presser
Source
“Riverwalk Jazz - Stanford University Libraries.” Accessed June 7, 2020. https://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/landmarks-jazz-music-musicians-and-memories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Cafe
Date
1909/1921
Contributor
Micah Salkind
Relation
Sunset Ballroom
Grand Terrace Cafe
The New Sunset
Cab Calloway
Louis Armstrong
Earl Hines
Type
Jazz
Identifier
Sunset Cafe
Coverage
Social Culture
Location
Ballrooms & Cabarets, Clubs & Discotheques
Files
Citation
Jo de Presser, “Sunset Cafe,” Chicago Black Social Culture Map, accessed May 17, 2024, https://cbscmap.omeka.net/items/show/47.