Restaurants & Taverns

Cafe Society

Cafe Society opened in 1945 at 966 E. 105th Street. Advertising itself as “Glenville’s swankiest,” Cafe Society featured a circular bar. The club was a mainstay for jazz music into the 1980s. The building is one of a rare few Cleveland Green Book sites that still stands today, housing the Khnemu Foundation Lighthouse Outreach Center.

Green Book Details

Cafe Society appears in the Green Book from 1947 to 1955 at 966 E. 105th St. under the category Taverns.

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Cafe Society ad | Call & Post, March 20, 1948
966 E. 105th St

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  1. My mother and Father both worked at the cafe society back in the early fifties My mother was a barmaid and my father was the Porter and we lived at the 1st house on the corner of a 105th street right behind the cafe society on Kempton Avenue

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