Palm Gardens Night Club
Known Name(s)
Palm Gardens Night Club
Address
Springwood Ave. Asbury Park, NJ
Establishment Type(s)
Night Club
Physical Status
Extant
Description
Articles and ads in the Asbury Park Press, particularly in the summer of 1950, indicate that the Palm Gardens was located at 1513 Springwood Avenue, the main artery of the West Side. The address, around Springwood and Myrtle, is technically in Neptune, rather than Asbury Park. The concrete block building at 1511-1513, on the corner of Myrtle, today may well be this structure.
Sanborn Map Co., Insurance Maps of New Jersey Coast, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1930), sheet 248; “Eve Iris,” Asbury Park Press, 3 July 1950; “Go Mad with the Mad Hatters,” Asbury Park Press, 15 June 1950; “Opening Tonight – Anita O’Day,” Asbury Park Press, 17 August 1950; “The Syn-Coettes,” Asbury Park Press, 17 July 1950.
Detailed History
It is probable that the night club, sometimes called Palm Gardens and sometimes Palm Garden, that was listed in The Green Book from 1950 through 1953, and the Palm Garden, listed as a tavern at Springwood and Myrtle in Neptune, are one and the same. An ad in The New York Age in July of 1949 toued the food, drinks and music (broadcast every Friday night) at the Palm Gardens, and lists the proprietors as James Leamous and Curtis Goodnight. The night club offered musical acts as well as food.
By 1954, the Tu-Door, also listed in The Green Book, was at that address (see that listing).
Sources: “Bar Transfer is Considered,” Asbury Park Press, 4 February 1953; “Charges Dropped Against Taverns,” Asbury Park Press, 28 June 1954; “Eve Iris,” Asbury Park Press, 3 July 1950; “Go Mad with the Mad Hatters,” Asbury Park Press, 15 June 1950; “Opening Tonight – Anita O’Day,” Asbury Park Press, 17 August 1950; “Palm Gardens,” The New York Age, 30 July 1949; “The Syn-Coettes,” Asbury Park Press, 17 July 1950.
J. Shaffer
