Little Harlem Night Club
1930s 410 7th Ave. S. Noodles Smith operated this club in the building he bought and ran as the Golden
Category: Venues
Club Royale aka “Bucket of Blood”
1930-1932 511 1/2 7th Ave. S. Run by a consortium of bootleggers who have never been reliably indentified, the Club
Chinese Gardens
1929 – c.1946 516 7th Ave. S. Charlie Louie opened this Chinese restaurant to great fanfare, including an announcement in
Doc Hamilton’s Barbecue Pit
1926-1931 908 12th Ave. John H. “Doc” Hamilton started running speakeasies on East Union Street in the early ’20s but
Washington Hall
1920s-1960s 153 14th Ave. The site of Seattle’s first documented performance specifically called “jazz” and played by locals — Lillian
908 Club
1920s-1956 908 12th Ave. Operated most famously in the 1920s and early ’30s by barbecue wizard John H. “Doc” Hamilton
Jungle Temple
1920s-1930s Highway 99 near the corner of 224 Street Southwest, Edmonds Photographs survive of the Jungle Temple but they do
Blue Rose
1920s-1934 115 14th Ave. S. Described by clarinetist Joe Darensbourg in the late ’20s as “a pretty eleborate after hours
Nanking
1920s 1616 1/2 Fourth Ave. A large downtown Chinese restaurant with a deep stage and potted palms. Singer Esmeralda Edwards
Entertainers Cabaret or Club
1920s 1238 S. Main St., corner 12th Ave. S. Later known as Sessions, or Sessions Playhouse, this club is important