Hollywood Country Club
The Hollywood Country Club (also known as Club Rex) was a private social club built by developer Clyde Nelson as part of his Hollywood residential subdivision in 1926. It was located along Shades Creek Parkway across from the site later used for the Brookwood Village mall.
The club was the original meeting place of the Freunde Deutscher Sprache und Kultur.
The 1947 Miss Alabama Dairy Queen pageant was held at the club. The first Homewood Armory was constructed nearby the same year.
In 1948 bandleader Dewitt Shaw leased the club and took over its management. His Spotlight Band began headlining on Saturday evenings.
In the 1950's, with Joe Robino as proprietor, the Cave Room hosted dancing and live music, often featuring performances by "exotic dancer" June Marsh and comedian Al Goody.
From 1977 to 1981 the country club building was Brothers Music Hall, which vacated the site as the building began to deteriorate. The vacant club building was destroyed in a 1984 fire. A Courtyard by Marriott hotel now sits on the site.
References
- "Club To Go Under New Management." (January __, 1948). The Birmingham News.
- Ryan, Shawn (February 25, 1994) "Exercising some muscle with the clout of New Era behind it, Five Points South Music Hall has strength that its predecessors didn't." Birmingham News
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External links
- Advertisement for the Cave Room October 1959, via Birmingham Rewound
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