On the evening of November 21, 1934, 17-year-old Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre. Fitzgerald brought down the house and became a legend. #OnThisDay
The north side of 125th Street, near Eighth Avenue, Harlem, 1920s. Prominent in the picture is Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater, which was later renamed the Apollo.
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you know you must really have been important when they have to have your viewing at some place like the Apollo theater. James Brown always sold out the Apollo so they could not deny his last show in New York