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The cabaret underwent a series of management changes in the 1940s. In March 1942 Max Cohen assumed management of the cabaret. In
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were considered "feeder rooms" to bring people to the profit-making roulette wheels, craps tables, and card games in the backrooms. A news item in
December 1931 reported a raid on the club in which Federal agents removed $ 20,000 worth of lavish Japanese and Chinese furnishings from the 20-room
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Clicquot Club has been called "the leading white nightclub" in Atlantic City. In 1945 popular black bandleader Mandy Ross was booked into an engagement at the club, and a white vocalist refused to perform with the band. In 1946, Eleanor Sherry and Her Swinghearts performed at the club. The
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Clicquot used its waitresses to push drinks on guests and even offer to sit and drink with them, in violation of New Jersey's alcoholic beverage control laws.
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was responsible for booking acts to perform at the club in the late 1940s. In 1947 drink prices started at 90 cents at the
Clicquot Club, Paddock International, and
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convention-goers eager to "release their inhibitions as they experienced everything and anything available". Until 1951, when the
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The bar and cabaret also developed a reputation for lawlessness, as the
Clicquot became known as one of the "bust-out joints" for
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Illinois Avenue no longer exists. It was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King
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