They Called It “KY & The Curb”
Historic Atlantic City - Kentucky Avenue, 1933-1980's
For more than four decades Kentucky Avenue ruled the East Coast Music scene. The greatest jazz and blues stars of all time filled its many clubs with round-the-clock entertainment - including Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Atlantic City’s national treasure, drummer Chris Columbo and his Swing Crew in the forties and fifties.
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As the other nightclubs called it a day, KY & the Curb was just getting hot. In the glory days of the 1950's Club Harlem had people lined up for blocks to see the 6 a.m. Breakfast Show. “Every night was our party,” said historian Sid Trusty. “And we invited the world.”
Ray Charles at Club Harlem in the 1960's.
Marker is on Boardwalk east of S. Kentucky Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
