© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
502 E MLK Blvd © Frank H. Jump
This awning was full of mold an inch deep and the smell coming out of the building of both the Half Note Club and Regency Liquors indicated they were closed for a number of years.
For decades, Ninth Street was the hub of the black community, home to black-owned retail shops, nightclubs and businesses. Bessie Smith sang there as a child and teenager, and it attracted many of biggest black entertainers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne and Nat “King” Cole, who would stay in the Martin Hotel. Clubs like the Whole Note and The Half Note were full of blues and jazz.
East Ninth Street was renamed M.L King Boulevard in 1981. – Chattanooga Now, March 2014
According to a thread in Old Bars, Chattanooga;
The Whole Note started out as a top of the line club for R&B entertainment and the Half Note was private for the who’s who’s in African American businessmen and politicians. Charles Bryant was the owner.
