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Jack’s Tavern and Club Alabam
12019-07-27T15:01:32-07:00Caitlin A Lee29a65b555d320af9da5e527f2072bd1108f91197345732plain2019-07-27T15:01:45-07:00Caitlin A Lee29a65b555d320af9da5e527f2072bd1108f91197“Jacks, that was considered to be a, more of an elite establishment, and the Club Alabam was a little more down-to-earth. And it was smaller and just more earthy. And Jack’s when, as I said uh, Saunders King started playing there, and then Herb Caen who came down to San Francisco as a reporter why, nationally he looked up Vernon, and so Vernon took him around to the colored clubs, Vernon had all these contacts. So Vernon took Herb Caen around and Herb Caen of course plugged Jack’s and plugged Alabam. And so you ended up with a mixed clientele. And that put Jack’s on the map and put the Fillmore district on the map. And during the war when the club scene exploded, why, we were, we had all the jazz going.” Earl Watkins
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