{"id":133,"date":"2017-05-30T21:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/?p=133"},"modified":"2017-05-23T21:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:55:59","slug":"sally-rands-the-music-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/sally-rands-the-music-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Rand\u2019s The Music Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Located on O\u2019Farrell, between Polk and Larkin, the Great American Music Hall as voted as the sixth best club in America by Rolling Stone Magazine in 2013. Its website will tell you that the club is \u201cSan Francisco\u2019s oldest and grandest nightclub,\u201d having opened in 1907 as \u201cBlanco\u2019s,\u201d thanks to the efforts of Chris Buckley. Blanco\u2019s, both envisioned and championed as a celebration of the city\u2019s revival after the 1906 earthquake, was not short on dazzle. In November 1907, the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> reported: \u201cWith hundreds of lights flashing merry welcome, with love songs of France and melodies of Hawaii and to the laughter and gayety of 600 guests, the opening of Blanco\u2019s\u2026 which is conceded to be the most magnificent of its kind in the country, proved to be last night as gorgeous an occasion as any that has taken place in the city since the disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Throughout the mid-late 1930s and into the 1940s, club goers were treated to Sally Rand\u2019s fan dances. Rand was a Vaudeville star who had been catapulted to stardom during the Chicago\u2019s 1933 World\u2019s Fair (\u201cCentury of Progress\u201d). In 1939, having leveraged her new stardom, she arrived in San Francisco for that year\u2019s Treasure Island World\u2019s Fair, holding court at the Fair\u2019s \u201cGayway,\u201d which consisted of the Sally Rand Nude Ranch. After the Fair, Rand stuck around, performing at Blanco\u2019s as Sally Rand\u2019s The Music Box. Below on the left is a 1939 photo of Rand performing at the Music Box (photo courtesy of the SFPL\u2019s San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection) and on the right is a Music Box flyer from that year\u2019s New Year\u2019s celebrations (photo courtesy of Virtual Museum of City of San Francisco). For more details on Sally Rand\u2019s life, take a look at the entry from the Virtual Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: (Top)\u00a0Dancer Sally Rand in costume for a performance at the Music Box nightclub, 1939.\u00a0From the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, SFPL. (Bottom) Image from the Vitual Museum.<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Located on O\u2019Farrell, between Polk and Larkin, the Great American Music Hall as voted as the sixth best club in America by Rolling Stone Magazine in 2013. Its website will tell you that the club is \u201cSan Francisco\u2019s oldest and grandest nightclub,\u201d having opened in 1907 as \u201cBlanco\u2019s,\u201d thanks to the efforts of Chris Buckley. Blanco\u2019s, both envisioned and championed as a celebration of the city\u2019s revival after the 1906 earthquake, was not short on dazzle. In November 1907, the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> reported: \u201cWith hundreds of lights flashing merry welcome, with love songs of France and melodies of Hawaii and to the laughter and gayety of 600 guests, the opening of Blanco\u2019s\u2026 which is conceded to be the most magnificent of its kind in the country, proved to be last night as gorgeous an occasion as any that has taken place in the city since the disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Throughout the mid-late 1930s and into the 1940s, club goers were treated to Sally Rand\u2019s fan dances. Rand was a Vaudeville star who had been catapulted to stardom during the Chicago\u2019s 1933 World\u2019s Fair (\u201cCentury of Progress\u201d). In 1939, having leveraged her new stardom, she arrived in San Francisco for that year\u2019s Treasure Island World\u2019s Fair, holding court at the Fair\u2019s \u201cGayway,\u201d which consisted of the Sally Rand Nude Ranch. After the Fair, Rand stuck around, performing at Blanco\u2019s as Sally Rand\u2019s The Music Box. Below on the left is a 1939 photo of Rand performing at the Music Box (photo courtesy of the SFPL\u2019s San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection) and on the right is a Music Box flyer from that year\u2019s New Year\u2019s celebrations (photo courtesy of Virtual Museum of City of San Francisco). For more details on Sally Rand\u2019s life, take a look at the entry from the Virtual Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.sfmoma.org\/hit-parade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}