Block 9 of Ahmed Abdullah Weeksville Oral History (Q26990)

Ahmed Abdullah: I came in on the decline of the golden era. I’ve talked to other people who were involved in the earlier era of Brooklyn when Putnam Central and all the other clubs were around. During that time [1970] we had the Blue Coronet, there was TheMuse on Bedford Avenue near Lincoln Place; people like Bill Barron, Reggie Workman, Roland Alexander, and Louis Reyes Rivera were all at The...