[Dixielandjazz] Getting 86-ed

[tduncan]

I like the Chumley's answer (see my earlier email with a link), but
Chumley's would find it hard to fit a trio in its small space. It has always
been known as a writer's hangout and the walls are papered with the dust
jackets from patron author's books over the last 80 or 90 years.

Cheers again!!

Tom Duncan
Doctor Dubious and the Agnostics
PO Box 2118      Teaneck, NJ 07666
P   (201)836-6076     FAX   (201)833-4143
www.doctordubious.com
 
 

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Here's one theory of how the term came into use.  And you can probably bet
that Chumley's had a jazz band!

"Many years ago, Chumley's Restaurant, at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich
Village, New York City, had a custom of throwing rowdy customers out the
back door. During Prohibition, Chumley's was a speakeasy owned by Leland
Stanford Chumley. When the cops were on the way, someone would shout "86,"
and they would all exit through the back door."

Sue

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