were involved in previous night clubs named The Embassy Club and the Macombo Club both on the south side of Chicago in the nineteen forties employing singers such as Patty Page and Peggie Lee. Tony DeSantis was a musician playing trumpet with my father, Paul Akerlund Sr. Their business relationship leads to their continued professional endeavors in opening the original nightclub in Chicago and they named this club the Martinique. My entry was in 1960 into the new Martinique located in Evergreen Park Illinois at 95th./ Western with Mr. The place is gone now, but 40 years later the memories are still there. Funny how you could not enter wearing blue jeans, but that choking cigarette smoke was tolerated. With a planned expansion my father, Paul Akerlund Sr., rejoined his former assistant manager by 1959, then becoming a co-manager and Mr. The owner was a Mike Cox, and he told me that when he became too old to run the place, the party was over, since his kids had no interest in following his footsteps. The Martinique offered a first-floor main lobby with entry to dining facilities, main dining room including a front terrace, bandstand, dance floor, rear terrace and a balcony overlooking all of the main floor dining seating. Separate from the lobby was adjoining Orchid Room, Rose Room, and Sky dining rooms. Located in the Rose Room, an Italian marble staircase with Crystal Chandeliers, led the guests to the second floor Sky Room dining. The Sky Room offered a back bar and a separate kitchen serving banquet parties. New construction was started by the early 1960’s, showcasing a new sunken bar with cocktail lounges, transformed the original Drury Lane Theater from the basement floor of the original Martinique building into a separate structure with the new Theater. 535 Georgia Avenue washington, DC 20011 usa County Phone: 20 Fax: unknown Website: Visit our website Email: Send us an email Food Available ( view food info) Happy Hour Specials Available. This new structure allowed the theater guests a separate entrance through an Italian marble foyer with the new box office on the main floor. 2 Customer Reviews Write a Review Submit a Photo Tell a Friend View Map. This box office was Tony De Santis office along with his theater staff.Ī dramatic, plush, thick, red-carpeted spiral staircase leading to the second-floor lobby of the new Drury Lane structure along with a new Star apartment and adjoining new DeSantis apartment was added. The new Drury Lane second-floor theater exterior pictured below was connected to the original restaurant’s first floor main dining rooms and second floor Sky Room banquet dining room allowing guests access into the new theater. The restaurant lobby remained open during years of construction then adding a new dining area in the original ground level theater setting. The original circular 180-degree flagstone waterfall separating the cocktail lounge from the restaurant lobby continued to offer guests a natural source of “White Noise” masking distracting sounds while allowing guests to permeate their minds for the feature productions either on the bandstands or the stage. Internal applications, then our B2B based Bizapedia Pro API™ might be the answer for you.The waterfall flowed down to the new cocktail lounge and dining area was called the “garden room.” What was magical about this waterfall was the double spiral staircase in front of the cascading waterfall that led into a surrounding enormous Japanese Orange Koi fish pond where patrons would drop coins from the main floor restaurant lobby. If you are looking for something more than a web based search utility and need to automate company and officer searches from within your WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE ADVANCED SEARCH FORM? Utilize our advanced search form to filter the search results by Company Name, City, State, Postal Code, Filing Jurisdiction, Entity Type, Registered Agent,įile Number, Filing Status, and Business Category. While logged in and authenticated, you will not be asked to solve any complicated Recaptcha V2 challenges. In addition, all pages on Bizapedia will be served to you completely ad freeĪnd you will be granted access to view every profile in its entirety, even if the company chooses to hide the private information on their profile from the general public. Your entire office will be able to use your search subscription.
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