The Little Casino (Teen Club). Looks like a dump from the outside but
inside it was a magical world of wonder and the site of countless first
loves. The front part had a grill and soda fountain on the left, chairs and
tables for hanging out after school, and a juke box that, in 1961, played:
Blue
Moon by the Marcels,
Chain
Gang by Sam Cooke,
This
is Dedicated to the One I Love by the Shirelles,
Gee
Whiz by Carla Thomas,
I
Wonder Who's Loving You by the Miracles, and
Suddenly There's A
Valley by
The
Drifters. If anybody ever played
anything cheesy (Neil Sedaka?), I've blocked it from my memory. The
back room had six or eight pool tables. At night, the front part would be
transformed into a night club with a stage, sometimes with live music
(sometimes
even by me!)