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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780316106177 ISBN: 0316106178 Label: Back Bay Books Manufacturer: Back Bay Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: November 02, 2001 Publisher: Back Bay Books Studio: Back Bay Books Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Everything you want to know about the Stork Club...The stork club was "pre-me" but I loved reading about it because many family members used to go there... You really get a sense of what it was like and the stories are fantastic... The manager runs the restaurant like a col. in the army... A very good book to read Rating:  - Ah! The Good Old Days!!"Stork Club" is a pleasant surprise. It is the remarkably well- researched story of a one-time bootlegger from Oklahoma, by way of Washington and Detroit, named Sherman Billingsley. The author had the obvious cooperation of Billingley's daughter. Mr. B ran Manhattan's Stork Club from the mid- 30s to the mid -60s. Located on East 53rd Street, it was arguably the world's most famous nightclub, when there were such things. "SC" deals relatively briefly with the glamorous café society clientele such ... Read More Rating: - AH! The Good Old Days.."Stork Club" is a pleasant surprise. It is the remarkably well- researched story of a one-time bootlegger from Oklahoma, by way of Washington and Detroit, named Sherman Billingsley. The author had the obvious cooperation of Billingley's daughter. Mr. B ran Manhattan's Stork Club from the mid- 30s to the mid -60s. Located on East 53rd Street, it was arguably the world's most famous nightclub, when there were such things. "SC" deals relatively briefly with the glamorous café society clientele such ... Read More Rating: - A GOLDEN AGE RECAPTUREDThis book brings to life the glorious decades of the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's, when night life in New York meant more than yuppie scum club hopping and dancing to grunge music in lofts. The wonderful Stork Club, and its colorful owner Sherman Billingsley, were an integral part of those decades. The book abounds in great anecdotes and captures what it must have been like to be admitted past the gold chain at the front entrance to the elegant interior of the Stork Club, where the likes of Walter Winchell, ... Read More Rating: - Bring the past into the present!I have always been a big fan of history, historical events, places, etc. but I never really thought about the age of the nightclub. This book brings the past to life. Telling the story of poor Sherman Billingsly who brings to life a dream, to own his own nightclub. Seeing him rise to almost superstar status and to see the dream slip away with the changing of the times. When I bought this book I figured it would be a read it on and off type book....I read it cover to cover in one sitting. ... Read More 
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