The story
The Carousel Club sat at 1312 1/2 Commerce Street in downtown Dallas, a burlesque and strip club run by Jack Ruby. One account says it began as the Sovereign Club around 1960, when Ruby and other investors took the space. The backers pulled out, Ruby was left in debt, and the place became the Carousel.
It ended with the assassination weekend of November 1963. According to the Warren Commission material summarized on Wikipedia, Ruby spent part of November 21 and the early hours of November 22 tending to the club. On November 22 he came back shortly before 1:45 p.m. to tell employees it would be closed that evening. Two days later he shot Oswald. A rival club, Abe Weinstein's Colony Club, was only a few doors down.
What's There Now
The sources opened do not say what occupies the address today.
Everything that was here
- 1960–1963
Carousel ClubBar
Jack Ruby ran this upstairs strip club on Commerce Street, and it was closed for good the weekend he shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
See the map in 1961 → - 1960–1960
Sovereign ClubBar
A club Ruby joined other investors in around 1960 before it became the Carousel.
See the map in 1960 →
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Nearby history
Colony Club
Adolphus Hotel
Magnolia Building (Magnolia Petroleum Building)
Whitacre Tower (One AT&T Plaza)
Wilson Building
Interurban Building (Interurban Terminal)
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