Night out at Central Avenue's Jockey Club, Los Angeles, 1940s

Item Overview

Title

Night out at Central Avenue's Jockey Club, Los Angeles, 1940s

Photographer

Merriman, Ted

Date Created

[1940s?]

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Notes

Summary

Publicist Earl "Red" Griffin was the IFRG's public relations director. He was known for discovering and promoting his eventual wife, LaTanya Griffin.
Dorothy Dandridge was a singer and actress, and the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Carmen Jones.
Ralph Gibbs was the owner of Gibbs' Jockey Club.
Maggie Hathaway, golfer and Los Angeles Sentinel golf editor, helped integrate municipal golf courses in Los Angeles, and was a founder of the Hollywood-Beverly Hills branch of the NAACP.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
L to R: Dorothy Dandridge, unidentified woman, Earl "Red" Griffin, Maggie Hathaway, unidentified woman, Gibbs (first name unknown, Ralph Gibbs, the owner of Gibbs' Jockey Club); unidentified man.
Gibbs Jockey Club Cafe was located at 4305 S. Central Avenue in Los Angeles.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Subjects

Culture
Entertainment
Lifestyle

African American businesspeople--California--Los Angeles
African American women golfers--California--Los Angeles
African American motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles

Names

Dandridge, Dorothy, 1922-1965.
Hathaway, Maggie, 1911-2001
Griffin, Earl
Gibbs Jockey Club (Nightclub)
Gibbs, Ralph

Location

California--Los Angeles

Longitude

34.0054298

Latitude

-118.2565003

Resource type

still image