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Meyers Ace Hardware Store

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    • 315 E 35th St Bronzeville

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Jazz aficionados often seek out the unassuming Meyers Ace Hardware Store. Why? Because in the 1920s and ’30s the building was the Sunset Cafe, where all the greats gigged. Imagine Louis Armstrong blowing his trumpet over by the socket wrenches. Or Earl Hines hammering the piano, down in the plunger aisle. And that was just the house band. Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Bix Beiderbecke all launched their careers at the Sunset.

 

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