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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Former nightclub in West Hollywood, California}}<br />
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{{Infobox venue<br />
| name = Ciro's<br />
| nickname = <br />
| image = Ciro's Neon Sign 1955.JPG<br />
| image_size = 275px<br />
| image_caption = Ciro's neon sign, 1955<br />
| location = 8433 Sunset Boulevard<br>West Hollywood, California<br>United States<br />
| coordinates = {{Coord|34.094990|-118.373806|display=inline,title}}<br />
| type = [[Nightclub]]<br />
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| opened = 1940<br />
| renovated = <br />
| expanded = <br />
| closed = 1957<br />
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'''Ciro's''' (later known as '''Ciro's Le Disc''') was a [[nightclub]] on [[Sunset Boulevard]] in [[West Hollywood, California]] owned by [[William Wilkerson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c9P1NEhHH68/Tgjz2UCF1dI/AAAAAAAACCo/Pc9NHbqgSic/s1600/Ciro%2527sBuilding.jpg|format=JPG|title=Photographic image|website=3.bp.blogspot.com|access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref> Opened in 1940, Ciro's became a popular nightspot for celebrities. The nightclub closed in 1960 and was reopened as a rock club in 1965. After a few name changes, it eventually became [[The Comedy Store]] in 1972.<br />
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== History ==<br />
'''Club Seville''' opened New Year's Eve 1935. It featured a "crystal dance floor with subsurface fish, fountains and colored lights in its Crystal Marine Room."<ref>{{cite web |title=Early Views of West Hollywood |url=https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_West_Hollywood_(1920_+).html |website=Water and Power Associates |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref><br />
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The building was remodeled, and, in January 1940, Ciro's was opened by entrepreneur William Wilkerson at 8433 Sunset Boulevard.<ref name="Lord">{{cite book|last=Lord|first=Rosemary|title=Hollywood Then and Now|publisher=[[Thunder Bay Press]]|year=2003|isbn=978-1592231041|location=San Diego|page=87}}</ref> In 1934, Wilkerson had also opened [[Trocadero (Los Angeles)|Cafe Trocadero]], and the restaurant La Rue, both on the Strip, and would later originate [[Flamingo Las Vegas|The Flamingo]] in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]], only to have control of the resort wrested from him by mobster [[Bugsy Siegel|Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel]].<br />
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In November 1942,<ref name="playgroundtothestars/ciros-opens"/> Wilkerson leased Ciro's to his longtime right-hand man Herman Hover,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ciros Hover |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/ciro%27s-Hover |website=Getty Images |access-date=July 21, 2023}}</ref> who would make sure Ciro's was an important Hollywood hotspot until 1959. <br />
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Ciro's combined a luxe [[baroque]] interior and an unadorned exterior and became a famous hangout for movie people of the 1940s and 1950s. It was one of the places to be seen and guaranteed being written about in the [[gossip column]]s of [[Hedda Hopper]], [[Louella Parsons]], and [[Florabel Muir]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_West_Hollywood_(1920_+).html|title=Early Views of West Hollywood (1920 +)<br />
|website=Water and Power Associates|access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref> On April 8, 1947, [[Frank Sinatra]] slugged "one of the most abusive"<ref name="thenation/sinatra-his-way">{{cite news |last1=Wiener |first1=Jon |title=Frank Sinatra: His Way |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/frank-sinatra-his-way/ |access-date=July 21, 2023 |work=thenation.com |date=June 15, 2009}}<!-- https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/by-making-a-public-apology-and-paying-9-000-to-new-york-news-photo/514958594 --></ref> Hearst gossip columnists, [[Lee Mortimer]], outside Ciro's.<ref name="wapo/FBI/Sinatra"><br />
* Jeff Leen. ''AKA Frank Sinatra'' [[Washington Post]], March 7, 1999<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7.htm<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7b.htm<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7c.htm<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7d.htm<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7e.htm<br />
*https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/sinatra7f.htm<br />
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Among the galaxy of [[Celebrity|celebrities]] who frequented Ciro's were [[Marilyn Monroe]],<ref name="alamy/169737431">{{cite web |title=Marilyn Monroe at Ciro's |url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-marilyn-monroe-at-ciros-169737431.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Lauren Bacall]], [[Frank Sinatra]],<ref name="gettyimages/Ciros-Angeles">{{cite web |title=Ciros Angeles |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/ciro%27s-angeles |website=Getty Images |access-date=July 21, 2023}}</ref> [[James Dean]], [[Ava Gardner]], [[Sidney Poitier]], [[Anita Ekberg]], [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Desi Arnaz]], [[Spencer Tracy]], [[Joan Crawford]], [[Betty Grable]], [[Marlene Dietrich]], [[Clark Gable]], [[Ginger Rogers]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Jerry Lewis]], [[Mickey Rooney]], [[Cary Grant]], [[George Raft]], [[George Burns]] and [[Gracie Allen]], [[Judy Garland]], [[June Allyson]] and [[Dick Powell]], [[Mamie Van Doren]], [[Jimmy Stewart]], [[Jack Benny]], [[Peter Lawford]], and [[Lana Turner]] (who often said Ciro's was her favorite nightspot) among many others. During his first visit to Hollywood in the late 1940s, future President [[John F. Kennedy]] dined at Ciro's.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oldhollywoodglamour.blogspot.com/2013/02/ciros.html|title=Ciro's|last=Katie|date=February 27, 2013|website=Old Hollywood Glamour}}</ref><br />
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In December 1951, Herman Hover, owner of Ciro's, was involved with the [[Lili St. Cyr]]{{'}}s [[indecent exposure]] case. She was defended by [[Jerry Geisler]]. She was accompanied by Armando Orsini, her husband.<ref name="indecent-1951-lili">{{cite web |title=Indecent exposure case, 5 December 1951. Lili Saint Cyr, defendant |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/indecent-exposure-1951-lili-cyr |website=[[Getty Images]] |access-date=August 3, 2024}}</ref><br />
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Herman Hover filed for bankruptcy in 1959, and Ciro's was sold at public auction for $350,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp329/19booker/Nat%20King%20Cole/CirosAbbeLane.jpg|format=JPG|title=Photographic image|website=I424.photobucket.com|access-date=October 24, 2018}}</ref><br />
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In 1965, Ciro's reopened as the rock club Ciro's Le Disc. [[Ike & Tina Turner]] performed at the newly opened club with [[Jimi Hendrix]] as part of their band.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Roby|first1=Steven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dclAAAAQBAJ&dq=jimi+hendrix+ike+turner&pg=PA103|title=Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius|last2=Schreiber|first2=Brad|date=August 31, 2010|publisher=Hachette Books|isbn=978-0-306-81910-0|pages=103|language=en}}</ref> [[The Byrds]] got their start at Ciro's Le Disc in 1965.<ref name="hjort5">{{cite book|author=Hjort, Christopher.|title=So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-By-Day (1965-1973)|publisher=Jawbone Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1-906002-15-2|pages=27–30}}</ref> Accounts of the period (reproduced in the sleeve notes to ''[[The Preflyte Sessions]]'' box set) describe a "church-like" atmosphere, with interpretive dancing. The club also served as the host during the recording of the 1965 [[Dick Dale]] album ''Rock Out With Dick Dale & His Del-Tones: Live At Ciro's''. Two years later, it was renamed '''The Kaleidoscope'''. In 1968, the club was called '''It's Boss'''. In 1969, it was known as Patch 2.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Serrapica |first1=Pasquale Vincent |title=Rocco (Pat) Photographs and Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3k4025zg/entire_text/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |publisher=ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California |access-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref> The site of Ciro's became [[The Comedy Store]] in 1972.<ref name="Lord" /><br />
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==Notable performers==<br />
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em|<br />
*[[The 5th Dimension]]<br />
*[[The Andrews Sisters]] <br />
*[[Ray Anthony]]<br />
*[[Desi Arnaz]]<br />
*[[Pearl Bailey]]<br />
*[[Josephine Baker]]<br />
*[[Dave Barry (actor)|Dave Barry]]<br />
*[[Len Barry]]<br />
*[[Louie Bellson]]<br />
*[[Brook Benton]]<br />
*[[Milton Berle]]<br />
*[[Theresa Brewer]]<br />
*[[Dave Brubeck]]<br />
*[[George Burns]]<br />
*[[The Byrds]]<br />
*[[Eddie LeBaron]]<br />
*[[Cab Calloway]]<br />
*[[Canned Heat]]<br />
*[[George Carlin]]<br />
*[[Carmen Cavallaro]]<br />
*[[Checkmates, Ltd.]]<br />
*[[Lou Christie]]<br />
*[[Petula Clark]]<br />
*[[Rosemary Clooney]]<br />
*[[Nat King Cole]]<br />
*[[Dick Contino]]<br />
*[[Xavier Cugat]]<br />
*[[Dick Dale|Dick Dale and the Del-Tones]]<br />
*[[Billy Daniels]]<br />
*[[Bobby Darin]]<br />
*[[Sammy Davis Jr.]]<br />
*[[Carmen de Lavallade]]<br />
*[[Tony DeMarco (dancer)|The DeMarcos]]<br />
*[[Marlene Dietrich]]<br />
*[[Phyllis Diller]]<br />
*[[The Doors]]<br />
*[[Katherine Dunham]]<br />
*[[Jimmy Durante]] <br />
*[[Bob Dylan]] <br />
*[[Barbara Eden]] <br />
*[[Duke Ellington]]<br />
*[[Eddie Fisher]] <br />
*[[Ella Fitzgerald]]<br />
*[[Connie Francis]]<br />
*[[Benny Goodman]]<br />
*[[Slim Gaillard]]<br />
*[[Judy Garland]]<br />
*[[Marvin Gaye]]<br />
*[[Mitzi Green]]<br />
*[[Merv Griffin]]<br />
*[[Phil Harris]] <br />
*[[Jimi Hendrix]]<br />
*[[Hildegarde]]<br />
*[[Billie Holiday]]<br />
*[[Geoffrey Holder]]<br />
*[[Libby Holman]]<br />
*[[Lena Horne]]<br />
*[[Burl Ives]]<br />
*[[Joni James]] <br />
*[[Herb Jeffries]]<br />
*[[Al Jolson]] <br />
*[[Spike Jones]] <br />
*[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]]<br />
*[[Danny Kaye]]<br />
*[[Stan Kenton]]<br />
*[[The Kingsmen]]<br />
*[[Lisa Kirk]]<br />
*[[Eartha Kitt]]<br />
*[[Abbe Lane]]<br />
*[[Gypsy Rose Lee]]<br />
*[[Peggy Lee]]<br />
*[[Tom Lehrer]]<br />
*[[Joe E. Lewis]]<br />
*[[Liberace]] <br />
*[[Little Richard]]<br />
*[[Martin and Lewis]]<br />
*[[Don Loper]]<br />
*[[Love (band)|Love]]<br />
*[[The Lovin' Spoonful]]<br />
*[[Nellie Lutcher]]<br />
*[[Rose Marie]]<br />
*[[Freddy Martin]]<br />
*[[Tony Martin (entertainer)|Tony Martin]] and <br>[[Cyd Charisse]]<br />
*[[Al Martino]]<br />
*[[Jimmy McHugh]] <br />
*[[Liza Minnelli]]<br />
*[[Carmen Miranda]]<br />
*[[Guy Mitchell]]<br />
*[[Jaye P. Morgan]]<br />
*[[Patti Page]]<br />
*[[Janis Paige]]<br />
*[[Freda Payne]]<br />
*[[The Peanut Butter Conspiracy]]<br />
*[[Edith Piaf]]<br />
*[[Dorothy Provine]] <br />
*[[Richard Pryor]]<br />
*[[Arthur Prysock]]<br />
*[[Tito Puente]] <br />
*[[Carlos Ramírez (singer)|Carlos Ramírez]]<br />
*[[Johnnie Ray]]<br />
*[[Della Reese]]<br />
*[[Harry Richman]]<br />
*[[Don Rickles]]<br />
*[[Billy Joe Royal]]<br />
*[[Jean Sablon]]<br />
*[[Mort Sahl]]<br />
*[[Lili St. Cyr]]<br />
*[[Olga San Juan]] <br />
*[[Hazel Scott]]<br />
*[[Roberta Sherwood]] <br />
*[[Frank Sinatra]]<br />
*[[Percy Sledge]]<br />
*[[Sonny & Cher]]<br />
*[[Danny Thomas]]<br />
*[[Kay Thompson]] and <br>[[The Williams Brothers]]<br />
*[[Sophie Tucker]]<br />
*[[Ike & Tina Turner]]<br />
*[[Charles Trenet]]<br />
*[[Mamie Van Doren]]<br />
*[[Sarah Vaughan]]<br />
*[[Veloz and Yolanda]]<br />
*[[The Ventures]]<br />
*[[Dionne Warwick]]<br />
*[[Dinah Washington]]<br />
*[[Senor Wences]]<br />
*[[Mae West]]<br />
*[[Josh White]]<br />
}}<br />
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== Ciro's club and restaurant chain==<br />
The name Ciro's comes from Italian-born Egyptian Ciro Capozzi who founded the first Ciro's bar in [[Monaco]] around 1892,<ref name="alamy/501459070">{{cite web |title=M. Ciro, Italian born Egyptian founder of Ciro's restaurant in Monte Carlo, pictured on the French Riviera in 1909. He sold the restaurant in 1911 to an English syndicate which included the Earl of Rosslyn and Clement Hobson. Other branches were opened in London, Paris and Biarritz |url=https://www.alamy.com/m-ciro-italian-born-egyptian-founder-of-ciros-restaurant-in-monte-carlo-pictured-on-the-french-riviera-in-1909-he-sold-the-restaurant-in-1911-to-an-english-syndicate-which-included-the-earl-of-rosslyn-and-clement-hobson-other-branches-were-opened-in-london-paris-and-biarritz-date-1909-image501459070.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en |date=1909}}</ref> next to the café Riche in the newly built Galerie Charles III. According to the story of [[James Gordon Bennett Jr.]], having a difference about a table on the terrasse, he bought the café Riche and gave it to Ciro who named it the Ciro's.<ref name="vintagemenuart/ciro-paris-1923">{{cite web |title=Ciro, Paris 1923 Menu Art |url=https://vintagemenuart.com/products/ciro-paris-1923 |website=Vintage Menu Art |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> In 1911, Ciro Capozzi sold the name to an English consortium (including [[William Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett]] as main investor,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/16ba68def9f386585f74265da819e370.pdf |title=''Journal de Monaco''|website=Journaldemonaco.gouv.mc|pages=3–6}}</ref> and Clément Hobson<ref name="alamy/501459015"><br />
*{{cite web |title=Clement Hobson, co-owner of the smart restaurant chain Ciro's, in Paris, Deauville, Monte Carlo and London. Also Chairman of the London Opera House. Hobson suffered with blindness in one eye and poor vision in the other - evidenced by the monocle he wears |url=https://www.alamy.com/501459015.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en |date=1913}}<br />
* {{cite web |title=Clement Hobson - Archives |url=https://www.jazzageclub.com/tag/clement-hobson/ |website=Jazz Age Club |access-date=July 20, 2023 |date=January 14, 2022}}<br />
</ref>) who open the Deauville Ciro's (still existing as a restaurant belonging to the [[Groupe Lucien Barrière]]), the Paris Ciro's in 1912,<ref name="agefotostock/MEV-10529167">{{cite web |title=The interior of Ciro's restaurant, Rue Daunou, Paris |url=https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/the-interior-of-ciro-s-restaurant-rue-daunou-paris/MEV-10529167 |website=agefotostock |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="jazzageclub/370">{{cite web |title=The Classy Ciro's Restaurant Chain |url=https://www.jazzageclub.com/the-classy-ciros-restaurant-chain/370/ |website=Jazz Age Club |access-date=July 20, 2023 |date=February 17, 2010}}</ref> and the London one in 1915. Ciro's became a European high society restaurant chain with branches in [[Monte Carlo]],<ref name="alamy/501459083">{{cite web |title=Sem on the Riviera - the famous caricaturist's very latest impressions. A page of caricatures by Sem (Georges Goursat) taken on the French Riviera. Clockwise from top left, Lord Howard de Walden, Mr Gordon Bennett, the millionaire newspaper proprietor at Ciro's, Monte Carlo, Lord Wandsworth, Lord Savile, Lord Westbury, all at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, M. Santos Dumont, M. Henri Rochefort and the Duc de Dino all at the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo and the Grand Duke Michael of Russia |url=https://www.alamy.com/501459083.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en |date=1913}}</ref> Paris, London<ref name="alamy/Ciros/London"><br />
*{{cite web |title=Ciros Club , the well known London restaurant , has been reopened after extensive alterations to the building . One of its new features is a fishing pond in which customers can catch their own trout , see it killed and prepared by the chef for the table|url=https://www.alamy.com/355273854.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en |date=May 2, 1932}}<br />
*{{cite web |title=Jannette, daughter of poet and author Walter de la Mare, dancing at Ciro's Club, London |url=https://www.alamy.com/jannette-daughter-of-poet-and-author-walter-de-la-mare-dancing-at-ciros-club-london-1928-image501464669.html |website=alamy.com |access-date=July 20, 2023 |language=en |date=1928}}<!-- https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/690876494 --><br />
</ref> (where [[Audrey Hepburn]] danced before her film career<ref name="nightclub_dancer_2020_12_16_variety_com">[https://variety.com/2020/film/news/audrey-hepburn-roman-holiday-dancer-1234803174/ "Audrey Hepburn: 'Roman Holiday' Star Started as Nightclub Dancer,"] December 16, 2020, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' (recapping July 5, 1950 ''Variety'' review of her dance show), retrieved February 5, 2022</ref>), and [[Deauville]]. Bartender [[Harry MacElhone]], famous for [[Harry's New York Bar]], first worked at Ciro's in London after [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/andrew-macelhone-dies-article-1.746494|title=Andrew MacElhone Dies|work=New York Daily News|date=September 20, 1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/video/ciros-club|title=Ciro's Club|first=British|last=Pathé|website=Britishpathe.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS_eUUe6TQw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/lS_eUUe6TQw |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Ciro's (1953)|last=British Pathé|date=April 13, 2014|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SI6hxcOCW8|title=A Night At Ciro's (1932)|last=Aaron1912|date=September 20, 2010|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Olivia|title=Gin Glorious Gin:How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London|date=2014|publisher=Headline Publishing Group|location=London|isbn=978-1-4722-1534-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gu5lDAAAQBAJ&q=ciro's&pg=PA198|title=London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880-1920|first=Catherine|last=Hindson|date=June 1, 2016|publisher=[[University of Iowa Press]]|page=198|isbn=9781609384258|via=Google Books }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redhotjazz.com/clubcoon.html|title=Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra |website=Redhotjazz.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/audrey-hepburn-exhibition-staged-on-site-of-night-club-where-she-got-her-big-break-9900508.html|title=Audrey Hepburn exhibition staged at National Portrait Gallery|date=December 3, 2014|website=Independent.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.illustratedfirstworldwar.com/item/the-coming-of-ciros-to-london-bpc000002_19150310_01_0028/|title=The Coming of Ciro's to London - THE INTERACTIVE WAR NEWS|website=Illustratedfirstworldwar.com}}</ref><br />
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<blockquote>"Ciro's was a hip London establishment (before another popular one opened up in Los Angeles in 1940), that had as their bartender Harry McElhone (author of ABC of Cocktails), at which Jimmy took over when Harry went off to Paris. ..." (Ross Bolton)<ref>{{cite book |last1="JIMMY" LATE OF CIRO'S LONDON |title=Cocktails |date=1930 |publisher=David McKay |location=Philadelphia |url=https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/late-of-ciro-s-london-jimmy/cocktails/103665.aspx |access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>"[[Louis Adlon]], grandson of the [[Lorenz Adlon|proprietor of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon]] opened Hollywood’s first iteration of Ciro’s in 1934<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodfilmogr14holl |title=Hollywood Filmograph |year=1934 |publisher=Hollywood Filmograph |quote=Feb. 17, 1934 ... Ciro's (formerly the Club New Yorker) threw its doors open Wednesday night to the public. It was one of the swellest turn-outs we have seen in some time. Harold Lloyd dropped in with his wife, Mildred, and ... Mrs. Buckley's party. Mario Alverez's orchestra furnished the music. The place is being operated by Erich Alexander, George Sorel and Louis Adlon, Jr. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=VM-175B |url=https://www.historicfilms.com/tapes/273 |website=Historic Films |language=en |quote=HOLLYWOOD 1935 - 03:11:50 - Montage, Hollywood Landmarks: Ciro's, Earl Carrol Theater, Cocoanut Grove.}}</ref> (with Erich Alexander<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1356950/|title=Erich-Alexander Winds|website=IMDb.com|access-date=24 October 2018}}</ref> and George Sorel<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814796/|title=George Sorel|website=IMDb.com|access-date=24 October 2018}}</ref>) Located on Hollywood Boulevard, the club was informally part of a chain with locations in London, Paris and Berlin. The Hollywood Ciro’s was not a success, apparently, because it soon folded."<ref name="playgroundtothestars/ciros-opens">{{cite web|url=http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/timeline/1940-ciros-opens/|title=1940: Ciro's Opens|website=Playgroundtothestars.com}}</ref></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote>"...At one point in the late 1930s there were wildcat Ciro's operating in Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami Beach (designed by George Farkas<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/novemberdecember/feature/miami-swank%E2%80%94and-its-opposite |title='Miami Swank—and Its Opposite' By Thomas Hine |quote=Interior designer George Farkas ... designed Miami Beach's Ciro's nightclub |access-date=2014-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210225545/https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2007/novemberdecember/feature/miami-swank%E2%80%94and-its-opposite |archive-date=2017-12-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://denisedanchesfisher.blogspot.com/2012/03/miami-beach-ciros.html|work=Meditations on a Widening Circle: Miami Beach |title=Ciro's}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://snbauthor.blogspot.com/2012/05/nightclub-ads-long-ago-on-miami-beach.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502013545/http://snbauthor.blogspot.com/2012/05/nightclub-ads-long-ago-on-miami-beach.html|url-status=dead|title=Nightclubs: Long Ago On Miami Beach, "Ciro's: At Alton Road and Dade Boulevard"|archivedate=May 2, 2014}}</ref>),<!-- https://search.library.wisc.edu/article/cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1032361240 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article249625838.html https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article249625838.html https://cuban-exile.com/doc_176-200/doc0189.html --><!-- https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32291240.pdf [PDF] Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records ... Nov 14, 2017 · the grand opening of Ciro's Restaurant, North Miami Beach,. Fla., operated by STEFANO RANDAZZO (Miami file 92-403) and. VINCENT JAMES ... https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32289500.pdf https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32291228.pdf https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75979625/stefano-anthony-randazzo --> Honolulu, Acapulco, Mexico City, and a host of other places..."<ref name="oxR-booze/ciros">{{cite book |last1=Wondrich |first1=David |last2=Rothbaum |first2=Noah |title=The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails |date=21 October 2021 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-931113-2 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199311132.001.0001/acref-9780199311132-e-1416 |language=en |chapter=Ciro’s |quote=was a chain of restaurants that from the 1890s through the 1950s...With outposts in Monte Carlo, Paris, London, the French resorts of Deauville and [[Bagnères de Luchon]], and eventually Berlin, Hollywood, and New York...in the late 1930s there were wildcat Ciro’s operating in Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami Beach, Honolulu, Acapulco, Mexico City, and a host of other places.}}</ref></blockquote><br />
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