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Been doing so for 5 years already Bob.

Have 1000's of bits that I have 'extracted from the Afro-Am including loads of show ads ...............

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Been doing so for at least 5 years already Bob.

I'm surprised that the paper has been readable online for 5 years. But not surprised that you spent 5 years cropping stuff from it.

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Its suprising just what you can find on-line (old newspaper wise) ...........

I have found soul related stuff in on-line newspapers for loads of cities across the US (& even in Canada) .....

So have stuff from New York, Miami, DC, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas, Toledo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Montreal, etc.

I'm sure that there's lots more out there on the web still waiting to be 'found' ....

.... An ad here from the famous 'Red Dog Inn' in Lawrence, Kansas ....

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Back to Kansas ..............

The Fabulous Flippers, led by amazing white soul singer Danny Hein, were one of the bands that orbited around the Red Dog Inn in Lawrence, Kan., in the mid-1960s. They were managed by John Brown, who owned the club, and promoted heavily on KOMA-AM out of Oklahoma City. They tore up dance halls up and down the center of the country. Their recording of “Harlem Shuffle” was released on Cameo Records C-439 in September 1966. Flip side was “I Don’t Want to Cry.”

For fans of the Lawrence-based 1970s-80s reggae act the Blue Riddim Band: look for saxophonist Jack Blackett in the background of this video .....

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Miami ........... May 1962 .... Clyde Killen's Knightbeat Club ....

BTW, you were right Bob, many of the newspapers that you can now access on-line via google went up just over 4 years ago.

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And some bits from Cleveland ........

In 1963, business partners Leo Frank and Jules Berger opened Leo's Casino in the lounge of the old Quad Hall Hotel at 7500 Euclid Avenue. The club could host 700 people and regularly booked the top jazz and R&B acts of its era. The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, the Miracles, Ray Charles and the Temptations all performed at Leo's Casino, as did comedians Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson. Otis Redding played his final concert there on December 9, 1967, dying in a plane crash in Wisconsin the following afternoon.

Co-owner Leo Frank opened his first club - Leo's - in 1952 at East 49th Street and Central Avenue. Leo's attracted the nation's leading jazz and R&B acts, but burned down in 1962, leading to the opening of Leo's Casino the following year. The new club was one of the most racially integrated nightlife spots in Cleveland. In July 1966 The Supremes played to a packed house of blacks and whites at Leo's not long after the Hough Riots broke out mere blocks away from the club.

Eventually, bigger venues offering bigger paydays began to lure the top performers away from the venue. Continued population decline and disinvestment in Cleveland's east side after the Hough Riots further hurt the club's fortunes. Leo's Casino closed in 1972 and was later torn down.

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although i'm not sure what the topic of the thread is now, here is cool royalettes footage i just found (I would post in video but I'm not sure if I should start another thread about the same topic):

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Well Bob you opened up the thread for my google-scans by saying ... I'm sure Roburt will screencap every single soul related thing ....

I'll fetch it back on topic then with a couple of Royalettes related items ....

... a show the group were on in Baltimore ....

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Well Bob you opened up the thread for my google-scans by saying ... I'm sure Roburt will screencap every single soul related thing ....

I'll fetch it back on topic then with a couple of Royalettes related items ....

... a show the group were on in Baltimore ....

you know you would have posted them anyways :).

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Three of the Royalettes are pictured here (in December 66) with Baltimore's George Jackson (who cut in New York), local DJ Hot Rod & others ....

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