March of Time: Night Club Boom (1946) 

Thank you for this wonderful documentary displaying a more culturally tasteful America.

I liked the restaurant bill for the whole family coming to $16.35.

I envy the generation that got to enjoy all of this.

Fun to see my parents dining at "21". I found a much longer bit of "21" footage with some 4 minutes of them being served pressed duck, and always wondered why it was made - now I see it was part of a more comprehensive look at NYC night clubs.

Wow at 14:13 you can see where Tarantino was inspired for the dance scene of his movie "Pulp Fiction" !!

unmentioned: at 8:45 sitting at table by kitchen door is writer John O'Hara a known patron

It's amazing.

Any short on NYC nightclubs that doesn't have Walter Winchell in it is jake by me. Meet ya at Birdland and dig Symphony Sid

Nothing can bring in a crowd like a zither

And choking clouds of tobacco smoke EVERYWHERE.

Polite extortion, haha love it

I wish i could be a young man during these times. Even though there was so much conflict in the world around this period. (im thinking mainly in europe where i live.) I would rather have died a soldier in 1945 than having an ordinary life in 2023.

Thanks, but give en those prices (multiply everything by 10 to adjust for inflation) I’ll stay at home with a good book.

Clubbing when the war was over 😅. Lordy have mercy on my liver😂😂

Watch Bowery boys in blues busters for Louie’s nightclub

Was the SaVoy Ballroom around at this time?

Anybody have to go to work the next day?

Good times. And everybody knew their gender 🙃