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The Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas, Texas has been called, Texas' Most Historic Music Venue [1] and since its inception has had a colorful set of proprietors. Originally built by O.L. Nelms, an eccentric Dallas millionaire, for his close friend, western swing bandleader Bob Wills, the venue opened in 1950 as Bob Wills' Ranch House.
The five oldest existing American clubs are the South River Club in South River, Maryland (c.1690/1700), the Schuylkill Fishing Company in Andalusia, Pennsylvania (1732), the Old Colony Club in Plymouth, Massachusetts (1769), the Philadelphia Club in Philadelphia (1834), and the Union Club of the City of New York in New York City (1836). [1]
Banerjee opened clubs in New York, Dallas, and Denver, [4] and three touring troupes toured around the US and Europe. [3] Similar nightclubs soon followed. Banerjee was worried about the competition and attempted to burn down at least three of them. [4] In 1987, Banerjee hired his close associate Ray Colon to murder his business partner Nick De ...
Ashok Kumar Mago was born in India where he did his early schooling and migrated to the US, landing at Dallas Fort Worth, in 1974. [1] [4] Later, he obtained a master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Texas at Dallas [1] and started Mago and Associates, a private Management Consulting firm, in 1991.
In 1904, a son, Angelo, was born to Carlo and Clementia Piranio. The Piranio relocation to Dallas, Texas, occurred sometime between the marriage and the Shreveport birth of Angelo in 1904. The April 1910 U.S. Census says the family lived temporarily at 774 Main Street in Dallas.
500 Club – a former a nightclub and supper club at 6 Missouri Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, that operated from the 1930s until the building burned down in 1973. [1] The 500 Club became one of the most popular nightspots on the East Coast, regularly attracting top-name talent.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is home to one of the oldest Indian American communities in Texas. Despite harsh immigration laws being passed in the early and mid 1900s, such as the Immigration Act of 1917 and the 1946 Luce-Celler Act, Indian immigrants, mainly skilled farmers from North India seeking agricultural work came to the region.
Frank H. Newton, MD (1887–1977), and wife, Cosette Faust Newton, PhD (1889–1975), who at one time was Dean of Women as Southern Methodist University, acquired the club in 1945 and closed it in 1950. In September that year, All American News (Emanuel M. Glucksman, manager), a commercial film concern based in Chicago, leased the building as ...