![Ike White and friends, Sphinx Club2115 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland1961TorrenceSubject Vertical File (Baltimore - Streets)Maryland Historical Society[SVF; X03]
Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail: “Established by Charlie Tilghman in 1946, the Sphinx Club was ‘the place’ to be on the ‘hot’ Pennsylvania Avenue, and one of the nation’s first minority-owned membership night clubs. The Afro-American Newspapers wrote in 1995 around the end of the Club’s nearly half-century of operation, ‘It had a certain air about it… a pronounced style that set it apart… the one spot where if you wait long enough, you are certain to meet everyone who is anyone.’”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyh2vaFCze1qgikbdo1_500.jpg "Ike White and friends, Sphinx Club2115 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland1961TorrenceSubject Vertical File (Baltimore - Streets)Maryland Historical Society[SVF; X03]
Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail: “Established by Charlie Tilghman in 1946, the Sphinx Club was ‘the place’ to be on the ‘hot’ Pennsylvania Avenue, and one of the nation’s first minority-owned membership night clubs. The Afro-American Newspapers wrote in 1995 around the end of the Club’s nearly half-century of operation, ‘It had a certain air about it… a pronounced style that set it apart… the one spot where if you wait long enough, you are certain to meet everyone who is anyone.’”")
Ike White and friends, Sphinx Club
2115 Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
1961
Torrence
Subject Vertical File (Baltimore - Streets)
Maryland Historical Society
[SVF; X03]
Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail: “Established by Charlie Tilghman in 1946, the Sphinx Club was ‘the place’ to be on the ‘hot’ Pennsylvania Avenue, and one of the nation’s first minority-owned membership night clubs. The Afro-American Newspapers wrote in 1995 around the end of the Club’s nearly half-century of operation, ‘It had a certain air about it… a pronounced style that set it apart… the one spot where if you wait long enough, you are certain to meet everyone who is anyone.’”
