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Celebrity Room

January 24, 2021 By Michael Fitzgerald Leave a Comment

1300 Rhode Island Avenue, NE in the Rhode Island Plaza building.

Restaurant added live music in June 1953.

After a remodeling, it re-opened as Cafe Celebrity on November 20, 1953. Seating 150.

Uncertain whether the following artists, mentioned as possible future attractions, ever appeared: Nat King Cole, Patti Page, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, and Pearl Bailey. 

Artists

  • Oscar Peterson (1953)
  • Cecil Young (1953)
  • George Shearing (1953)

Bibliography

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Herron, Paul. “On the Town.” Washington Post, June 10, 1953.
Herron, Paul. “On the Town.” Washington Post, November 20, 1953.

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