Found on EBay — A Night on the Town, 1944

Posted on May 8, 2009 by lmharnisch


Nightclub photos, 1944  
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Nightclub Photos, 1944

A lot of seven souvenir nightclub photos, all from 1944, has been listed on EBay. These folks clearly got around: Earl Carroll's, the Florentine Gardens, the Cocoanut Grove, plus several clubs in San Francisco.

Notice the woman at left has a flower in her hair–and no, she's not Elizabeth Short! For that matter, the woman on the right has done the same thing. My point is that for a time in the mid-1940s, this was quite fashionable and that Elizabeth Short–the Black Dahlia–was doing nothing unusual in pinning flowers in her hair.

Bidding on this lot of photos starts at $19.99. Yes, I'm tempted–don't you love the artwork on the photo holder
from the Cocoanut Grove?– but I already have more of these than I need.

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1 Response to Found on EBay — A Night on the Town, 1944

  1. Imp's avatar Imp says:
    June 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Believe it or not i bought a Florentine Gardens photo of this gal (and several of her cohorts) from this seller, must have been last summer. Wish she’d been selling this lot then.
    If i recall correctly the folder has something about a Lt. Marshall and Commander of 7th Fleet.

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