CAFE DE L’OPERA. Southeast corner of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. The Cafe de l’Opera was the American equivalent of Paris’s Cafe de Paris. This was one of the first successful cabarets in America in the years before World War I.
Louis Martin
was the proprietor of the club, where guests could partake of a bottle and bird
(champagne and pheasant under glass) and dance to the latest rage, the fox-trot. At midnight a drumroll would clear...