The story
The raucous hall where a four-year-old Louis Armstrong first heard Buddy Bolden blow—just steps from Armstrong's childhood home.
Everything that was here
- 1900–1917
Funky Butt Hall (Union Sons Hall)Dance Hall
The raucous hall where a four-year-old Louis Armstrong first heard Buddy Bolden blow—just steps from Armstrong's childhood home.
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