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The Cave Supper Club was a Western Canadian chain of clubs in Winnipeg, Vancouver, and Edmonton.聽聽opened in Winnipeg in 1935. Two years later the 麻豆传媒映画location opened at 626 Hornby Street. This is the one that became legendary, surviving more than four decades and hosting the top entertainers in show business.
Like something from the town of Bedrock, The Cave was decorated with stalactites fashioned out of burlap and plaster, and the walls were made similarly cave-like. In the early days, it was a supper club with floor shows and so-and-so and his orchestra. Any alcohol that was consumed was discreetly brought in by patrons because liquor laws at the time forbade the聽聽of drinking and entertainment.
It wasn鈥檛 until the 1950s that聽. It was the first night club in town to receive a liquor licence in 1954, which allowed it to afford top notch acts. Many performers viewed 麻豆传媒映画in general and The Cave in particular as a good place to warm up before playing shows in Las Vegas. Crowds at The Cave were notoriously hard to please, making the venue a good test run before attempting higher profile shows south of the line.
The clientele in the 鈥�50s dressed to the nines, even though many nights The Cave served as a strip club. Mainly white burlesque performers danced at The Cave (more 鈥渆xotic鈥� dancers of colour were booked into east side clubs), though such racial divisions were being challenged by the mid-fifties by people like the legendary聽, who appeared at The Cave in 1955 and聽聽against racial discrimination in American night clubs.
罢丑别听聽that graced The Cave鈥檚 stage in its four decade existence is mind-boggling. A partial list includes Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Lenny Bruce, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Louis Prima, Wayne Newton, Sonny and Cher, Lena Horne, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Everly Brothers, Peggy Lee, Roy Orbison, Buddy Rich, Doug and the Slugs, the Village People, the Pointed Sticks, the Modernettes, the Police, and Ella Fitzgerald, whose 1968 show at The Cave can be .
The Cave closed its doors in 1981 and the stalactites were聽聽for $20 each.
Source: Library and Archives Canada
