Photo: A happy couple in the Zanzibar Room of the Florentine Gardens, Sept. 6, 1944.

In case you’re wondering, I contacted the vendor of the bogus EBay picture I recently acquired. He said he got it from an estate in Los Angeles and in compensation, sent me this one, a better image that shows the zebra-skin upholstery and bamboo–covered walls of the Zanzibar Room.  The Zanzibar Room was the cocktail lounge where the club usually booked African American acts like the Mills Brothers.