Basin Street aka 411 Club
1940-1945 411 S. Maynard St. Davey Lee opened this very popular after-hours club, sometimes referred to as the 411 Club
Category: Venues
Ubangi
1936-1938 410 7th Ave. S. Russell E. “Noodles” Smith’s last hurrah in the nightclub business, the Ubangi opened with the
Rizal Club
1930s-1940s 605 1/2 S. King St., corner 6th Ave. S. A Filipino social club founded by Demetrio Ente, the Rizal
Chinese Castle
1934-1935 8721 Lake City Way N.E. Much myth surrounds this now vanished roadhouse, which had a turret on top said
Black Elks Club
1938-1950s 662 1/2 S. Jackson St. In 1938, the Seatttle chapter of the Black Elks fraternal order moved its offices
Rocking Chair
1940s-1950s 115 14th Ave. S. Sometime in the 1940s the Blue Rose became the Rocking Chair, still run by “Big
Dumas Club
1910s 209 Fifth Ave. S., later 1040 S. Jackson St. One of Seattle’s first African-American social clubs, the Dumas Club
Green Dot
1930s-1940s 609 S. Jackson St. A barber shop with a piano room in back owned by Sherman Spates, the Green
East Madison YMCA
1936-1940s 1700 23rd Ave. Though obviously not a night club, the East Madison YMCA was an historically important venue for
China Pheasant
1936-1960s 10315 E. Marginal Way S. A popular roadhouse in a pasture near the Duwamish River and often advertised as