What happened to jewels catch one?
What happened to jewels catch one?
Jewel’s Catch One was a dance bar owned by Jewel Thais Williams, located on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. Open for forty years, it was the longest running black gay dance bar in Los Angeles. After nearly closing in 2015, it was purchased by Mitch Edelson – who reopened under new management.
What is the catch one now?
Long known as America’s oldest black-owned nightclub, Jewel’s Catch One shuttered for good in late 2015, in part so Thais-Williams could focus more attention on her acupuncture and Eastern medicine clinic, the Village Health Foundation. (The Catch One building is now home to Mitch Edelson’s Union nightclub.)
Who owns the Catch One Los Angeles?
Mitch Edelson
News of a sale broke in November 2015, and new owner Mitch Edelson announced that Catch One would reopen in 2016. Edelson’s family owns a number of well-known bars and nightclubs in Los Angeles, including Los Globos and El Cid.
Who bought Catch One?
Mitch Edelson is buying the embattled Mid-City nightclub. LA club Jewel’s Catch One has been purchased by Mitch Edelson. The Mid-City venue, once a prominent black gay nightclub, has operated as an all-purpose music venue for a while now.
What is a club called Rhonda?
“It doesn’t feel like the same crowd that gathers at any other single event. We take great pride in that,” he said, before co-founder Loren Granich added that they consider it “a vibrant mosaic of LA nightlife.” Related | A Club Called Rhonda’s Guide to LA.
Who owns Los Globos?
Steve Edelson
Los Globos was long a Latin club serving neighborhood residents. Nightclub entrepreneur Steve Edelson bought the place six years ago and brought on his Chicago friend Johnson, a Jamaican expat, musician and veteran club owner who came up in that city’s house music and reggae scenes.
Who is Steve Edelson?
Edelson was a founding Principal and the Managing Director of the Lake Erie Crushers, a professional minor league baseball team in Cleveland. In 2009 the Lake Erie Crushers won the Frontier League Championship. Edelson worked to enact one of Chicago’s first privatizations of a management contract for a public facility.
