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Palladium Ballroom. Coordinates: 40°45′48″N 73°58′58″W. Palladium Ballroom. The Palladium Ballroom was a New York City night club. The US mambo craze that started in 1948 began at the Palladium Ballroom. On March 15, 1946, it opened at the northeast corner of Broadway and 53rd Street.
Kerry Washington (born 1977) – actress. Douglas Watt (1914–2009) – theater critic [98] Fred Weintraub (1928–2017) – founder and impresario of the Bitter End 1960s hippie club; producer of movies about Woodstock, Bruce Lee. Burt Wolf (born 1938) – travel reporter and writer for CNN and ABC networks.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, de Leon used photographs to document the communities of the South Bronx, occupied predominantly by African Americans and Latinos. [4] These images became her "South Bronx Spirit" photo series, which offered a counter-narrative to the negative stereotypes aimed at the residents of the South Bronx after the beginning of its economic collapse. [4]
Christine Jorgensen (May 30, 1926 – May 3, 1989), born George William Jorgensen Jr., [4] was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
1639 - Jonas Jonasson Bronck settles and establishes a farm (which he named Emmaus) on 500 acres in what will become known as the Bronx. 1642 - Summer: Anne Hutchinson and family move to a location near Split Rock. 1643 - August: Anne Hutchinson and others are massacred in an Indian raid during Kieft's War.
Career. Michaels began her career at the age of 16 in 1944 as a showgirl at Billy Rose 's Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub in New York. Her stage debut, also at age 16, was in the play Glad to See You which ran in Philadelphia and Boston from November 1944 to January 1945. [4] After that show closed, she was a dancer in Havana for about a year.
Betty Joan Perske (September 16, 1924 – August 12, 2014), professionally known as Lauren Bacall (/ bəˈkɔːl / bə-KAWL), was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the ...
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]