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Oh those days when TEXAS GUINAN offered world-class whoopee at her Argonaut Club on West 54th Street at two different addresses. [Alas, the original buildings are gone and one of the addresses now belongs to a movie house called Bowtie Cinema built in 1969.]
• • Argonaut Club — 151 West 54th St. (1930) • •
• • NEW YORK, Oct. 8. (A.P.) Sudden fire blazing through the flimsy structures of Texas Guinan's Argonaut Club in 151 West 54th Street today wrecked the place, while a sizeable crowd watched firemen who came too late to save the furniture.
• • Source: Associated Press news rpt in The Stanford Daily; published on 9 October 1930.
• • Argonaut Club — 141 West 54th St. (1931) • •
• • By January 1931, Texas Guinan was advertising Argonaut Club as an asylum where the merriment continues until dawn at 141 West 54th Street, in the same building as the Ziegfeld Theatre.
• • After she decamped, it became Valhalla Restaurant, offering a bountiful Viking-style smorgasbord. Alas, the spectacular Ziegfeld was razed in 1966.
• • Currently, Bowtie Cinema occupies a small slice of the old site at 131 West 54th Street (off 6th Avenue).

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• • The legal battles fought by Mae West and Jim Timony are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West: Sex, Censorship, and Secrets," set during the Prohibition Era. Texas Guinan is in some scenes, too. Watch a scene on YouTube.
• • Website for all things Mae West — http://MaeWest.blogspot.com

• • Exciting Texas Guinan news is on the horizon. More anon.
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