1940s Tulsa OK Down Beat Jazz Music Club Photos

$800.00

Striking woman at the piano, a saxophone player on band stand and a female singer almost sitting in the audience on small stage.   Their names Inez McCreary, Sugar Green, Juniata & the Southern Serenaders. There is energy here.  But its the candids.  Knowing man wearing a Tulsa fez on Elks night stares down the camera, water in his hand and...

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Striking woman at the piano, a saxophone player on band stand and a female singer almost sitting in the audience on small stage.

 

Their names Inez McCreary, Sugar Green, Juniata & the Southern Serenaders. There is energy here. 



But its the candids. 



Knowing man wearing a Tulsa fez on Elks night stares down the camera, water in his hand and beer wrapped in newspaper on the bar; or Drew (likely a projectionist) leaned in front of a Motion Picture Industry / Showman’s Trade 1942 calendar.



The swagger of the scene around the Birely's Soda Cooler (Coca Cola is there, but relegated second). Punk & Velma with the sign board, Ella & Louis on the sign board. Online research has Punk as at least partial owner of the club. 



(7) Elko 3 x 4” snapshots with pen identifications and some with corner harm / residue from scrapbook.