The premises at 1608 North Cahuenga in Hollywood housed a variety of tenents prior to becoming a major jazz club on the West Coast in the 1960s. In the early 1920s the address was listed as the location for sales opportunities, one product being a slenderizing cream, just send $3.50 with the ad for your […]
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SHELLY’S MANNE-HOLE – FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
Shelly Manne opened his jazz club at 1608 North Cahuenga Boulevard in November of 1960. Noted jazz columnist Ralph J. Gleason profiled Shelly’s Manne-Hole in the Los Angles Mirror, View magazine. Gleason’s article is followed by an article that appeared five years later, an appraisal of Shelly’s Manne-Hole on the occasion of its fifth anniversary. […]
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