Owner/Operator: Ira Littlefield

"'Charlie's brought the white kids from the west side and the runoff enabled the other clubs to have a heck of a business,' he explains. 'Like Sam's on 12th Street and the IL Club across the corner from Charlie's Playhouse. And when Charlie's was full, the kids just said, 'We'll go to the IL Club,' because he had a band, too. They just tore that club down a year or two ago [ca.2001].'" from Margaret Moser's article Bright Lights, Inner City

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