Gee-Haw Stables


Gee-Haw Stables '' was a Harlem jazz club at 160 West 132nd Street, between 7th & Lenox Avenue. The club flourished from June 1940 to about 1945.

History

Gee-Haw Stables, named because a sculpted horse's head graced the entrance, was a tiny after-hours club where the action started around 7 and would often go until noon. In 1941, the club was owned and operated by Johnny Bradford, who, that same year, married Una Mae Carlisle At the time of their marriage, Bradford lived at 35 West 110th Street, and Carlisle lived at the Hotel Theresa.
In 1964 the Gee-Haw location was a Gulf Gas Station.

Other clubs managed by Bradford

Bradford later managed other clubs in Harlem, including:
  1. Jimmy's Famous Chicken Shack, 763 St. Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan, opened in 1937 as Jimmy Brown's Chicken Shack at 763 St. Nicholas Avenue; Bradford became the host of Jimmie's in 1949, when it was owned by Jimmy Bacon ''; the lower level of 763 St. Nicholas Avenue, once called a parlor level, is currently a small Senegalese restaurant, "Tsion Cafe & Bakery"; 763 St. Nicholas, in the 1920s and 1930s was a funeral parlor – "Charles M. Jerolomon Parlors."
  2. The Barnyard