VTG Feature Matchbook DAVY JONES LOCKER Minneapolis MERMAIDS Unused

Description

Very cool matchbook - unused from the 1960's.
Davy Jones Locker
Cocktail & Entertainment Lounge
Internationally Famous
located in the
Downtowner Motel
(DM)
in Minneapolis Minnesota
The matches are intact and they picture mermaid cocktail servers.
This motel had 4 cocktail, entertainment lounges in the 60's, below is a bit of history on
this particular lounge.
Davy Jones’ Locker opened in July 1961 and featured a lingerie show which curiously no women went to.
In 1962 acts included Junior Walters and Ike Cole, Nat King Cole’s brother. From Davy Jones’ Locker one could see into the pool, and in 1963 Sloan tried to hire girls to don bikinis and frolic for the businessmen; although the Trib reported that Minnesota girls proved too modest a June 1963 ad did advertise “Exciting cocktail lounge famous for its underwater swimming shows.” One could ask for one’s favorite Pirate Girl for their Shipwreck Specials. Jazz trios every night except Sunday; in July 1963 the management presented the Lee Evans Trio with Betty Nese, “a special treat as a way of thanking Minneapolitans for their patronage. The Trio has held leading engagements in New York and Las Vegas in addition to television appearances and three popular recordings.” In 1971 or so it was a jazz club with Kenny Horst and his combo as the house band.
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