Interior spread from “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It by Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, and Kestutis Nakas (Some Serious ...

How is it being back at the Pyramid club? It was crazy being on that stage again. The footprint’s exactly the same. But it’s 40 years later, I’m a different person, and the world is vastly different.

In April 1949, a Times-Dispatch headline read, “Pyramid Craze at Peak Here.” The story was accompanied by photos of crowds of men and women putting money into a jar. In 1949 “pyramid clubs” began in ...

This microfilm collection consists of annual exhibition catalogs from the Pyramid Club, an African American social club. The exhibition catalogs date from 1943 to 1945 and 1955. 35mm microfilm reel ...

An area of the East Village bounded by East 2nd and East 7th streets between First Avenue and the Bowery, plus 10th Street on the north side of Tompkins Square Park, is being considered as a possible ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Pyramid Club was an African American social club founded circa 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The club had its own bar and restaurant, ...