London

The Shim Sham Club

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The Shim Sham Club

1935

Wardour Street · “London’s Cotton Club”

A Wardour Street jazz haunt known as 'London's Cotton Club' — racially mixed and sexually liberal at a time when both were rare, drawing a crowd that crossed lines the rest of society policed fiercely.

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