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@CircleStarTheater (60s-1993) *JanisIan *StevieWonder *RighteousBrothers *SergioMendes *CaptainandTennille *RichLittle *PatBoone *SmothersBrothers *TomWaits *ZiggyMarley *WayneNewton *FrankZappa *HerbAlpert *NatalieCole *JosephineBaker *RobertPalmer
ChungWong 18:23 May 29

 

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1927 *JosephineBaker in banana costume. "Danse Sauvage" started 1926 @FoliesBergere where *ErnestHemingway saw her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." 1929 *OrientExpress 1st African American @Yugoslavia @Serbia @Croatia @Zagreb
ChungWong
15:41 Apr 29
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*JosephineBaker (1906–1975) in 1920 in *JonesFamilyBand remarried at 15 to *WilliamHowardBaker in 1921. Left him for *Vaudeville @NewYork divorced in 1925. At 13 in 1919 @PlantationClubNYC *HarlemRenaissance *ShuffleAlong, (1921
ChungWong
14:55 Apr 29
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*JosephineBaker (1906–1975) at 12 dropped out of school. At 13 waitress @OldChauffeursClub Met & wed *WillieWells (m.1919-20) *Jazz Street child, street dancer for change. Lived in tslums, sleeping in cardboard shelters, scavenging food in garbage
ChungWong
14:51 Apr 29
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*JosephineBaker (1906–1975) saw 1917 racial violence @McKinleyBridge (1910). "west bank of the Mississippi looking over into @EastStLouis...glow of the burning of Negro homes lighting the sky..screams of the Negro families running across this bridge"
ChungWong
14:50 Apr 29
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@MillCreekValley *JosephineBaker (1906–1975) @212Targee @EnterpriseCenter (1994) played @UnionStationStLouis At 8, 1914, domestic worker in laundry w/ white families. One burned hands for using too much soap.
ChungWong
14:44 Apr 29
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1908 *JosephineBaker (1906–1975) @212Targee Played @UnionStationStLouis 212 was 1899 *MurderSite where "Frankie and Johnny" set @EnterpriseCenter (1994) @MillCreekValley seen 1853 @StLouis Rooming houses, brothels, and APTs, no plumbing
ChungWong
14:24 Apr 29
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