Panama Cafe (Panama Club)

CTL-E-0868 · Address · site · ca. 1910s-1920

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White-owned early jazz incubator; Florence Mills got her start there; Tony Jackson's 'Pretty Baby' dates to 1916 there.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:venue-panama-cafe; source research type(s): place.

Sources

NPS Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination (1985); Bo Lindstrom (2012)

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