Introduction
The Ebony Showplace was a popular spot in Camden in the late 1970s. With a large dance floor and seating for over 300 people, the Ebony Showplace featured live music, and many of the area’s top soul and rhythm & blues acts appeared there during the club’s all too brief lifetime.
The Ebony Showplace stopped appearing in the New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages after 1979. The building was a victim of a fire in 1981 and was razed.
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1979 Yellow Pages Advertisement
Ebony Showplace advertisement, 1979 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.
1981 Fire
Camden Fire Department at work at 1469 Broadway, 1981. Firefighter Pete Carbone kneeling. Battalion Captain Chip Ayers with back to camera.
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