Jenkins’s Corner (Oakland, California)

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Historical location of Jenkins’s Corner, also known as Slim Jenkins’s club, Slim Jenkins’ Place, or Slim Jenkins’ Supperclub, from 1933-1962. The club was a blues and jazz club which was once part of the thriving blues and jazz music scene on 7th street in the 1940s and 50s in West Oakland. The club played the likes of Louis Jordan, B.B. King, Charles Brown, The Ink Spots, Ivory Joe Hunter, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan and many others. The building no longer exists, torn down and replaced by a gas station in 1962 which is no longer here. Slim Jenkins’s club then moved to a location on Broadway Ave near Jack London Square.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Bottoms,_Oakland,_California
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Coordinates:   37°48'26"N   122°18'7"W
This article was last modified 13 years ago