Block 19 of Kwesi Mensah Wali Weeksville Oral History (Q26170)

Mensah Wali:The Continental may have been closed by the time I got out of high school, around ’59 or ’60. But there were still plenty of clubs around;the Blue Coronet was there, theBaby Grand [Brooklyn] was there,Club La Marchal, theArlington Inn…Town Hill may have closed after I graduated. Those clubs were all still active when I was in high school. But the first jazz club that I went to was ...