Café Society Uptown, New York 1940s Cafe This grinning pig

This grinning pig

The Society believed a high-fibre diet

ink blotters (this is one) swizzle sticks

Aleister Crowley

Josephson instructed the great jazz singer to sing the iconic song at the end of her set - and not to return for encores- so his clients would leave with the terrible words ringing in their ears

Café Society Uptown, New York 1940s Cafe This grinning pigCaf Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson. Josephson created the club to showcase African American talent and to be an American version of the political cabarets he had seen in Europe earlier. As well as running the first racially integrated night club in the United States, Josephson also intended the club to defy the pretensions of the rich; he chose the