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On March 24, 1971, Frank Minner Jr., the president of U.S. Communications Corporation, announced at an Atlanta press conference that, due to low advertising revenue, WATL-TV (and KEMO-TV) would go off the air on March 31. [24] [25] The last full broadcast day was March 31, 1971, and the station signed off in the early morning hours of April 1 ...
Cotton Club reopened Friday, February 11, 2000, with a show by Staind. [38] Cotton Club operated in the lower level of the Tabernacle until November 20, 2004. The last performer was Helmet. [39] The Tabernacle continues as a major concert venue in Atlanta. Conan O'Brien hosted a week of Conan shows at the Tabernacle from April 1 to 4, 2013. [40]
Several rap and hip-hop songs mention Magic City, [9] including "Strip Club" by The 2 Live Crew, [10] "Magic City Monday" by Jeezy [11] and "Magic" by Future. [12] The reference to "Monday" is because Magic City is "supposedly the Holy Grail of Atlanta strip clubs on Monday nights". [ 13 ]
Hotel Clermont is a fairly unassuming building (so much so that my Uber driver passed it twice) along the very traffic-heavy Ponce de Leon Avenue in downtown Atlanta.. It was built in 1924, fell ...
Later tenants included the "Gypsy Club" (c. 1951–1954), and "The Continental Room" (1954) before returning to the Anchorage name from about 1956 until 1963, when it was briefly known as the "Atlanta Playboy Club", an unofficial attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Hugh Hefner's magazine. A lawsuit closed the Atlanta Playboy Club.
The club was the subject of the 2001 Court TV program Sex, Sports & the Mob: Atlanta's Gold Club, written and directed by Steven Dupler. [9] After the club's 2001 closure, [7] Atlanta City Council agreed to attempt to purchase the location, [3] although it was next used as a church before opening as The Gold Room nightclub in 2009. [7]
For those who weren’t able to score a ticket to the “Billions Club Live With the Weeknd” show ... and it largely played as an evolution of his “After Hours Til Dawn” concert that he ...
The Earl was opened in 1999 by John Searson, a long-time Atlanta resident but a newcomer to the restaurant and live entertainment business. The building at 488 Flat Shoals Avenue was being used to store mattresses when Searson signed the lease with the intention of transforming the space into a club and lounge.