Venue: Café Montmartre
Town: Los Angeles, US

Café Montmartre (Montmartre Lounge) was a restaurant and nightclub on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US. Opened in 1923, it became a "worldwide center for celebrity and nightlife" during the 1920s and a place where tourists would visit to try to break into Hollywood. In 1919, Charles E. Toberman bought the property at 6763 Hollywood Boulevard, and three years later, he had a real estate office built on the lot. The building, built by architects Meyer & Holler, included a first floor bank and Café Montmartre on the second floor. Café Montmartre was the first popular nightclub on the boulevard after Adolph 'Eddie' Brandstatter opened it in 1923. Given the dramatic growth of the American film industry in Hollywood at the time, it became a worldwide center for celebrity and nightlife during the 1920s and has been described as the first successful café in Hollywood and the most publicized cafe in the country. The venue's decline began in 1929 after Brandstatter opened the Embassy Club which drew away clientele from the Cafe Montmartre. He declared bankruptcy in 1932, and subsequently sold the Montmartre. The second floor space later housed the Lee Strasberg Institute before it became the present-day Club Day After, which features the Montmartre Lounge, a private parties' bar, its signage being just the letters "ML". A convenience store has replaced the first floor bank. Red Skelton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star for his work on radio is in front of the 6763 building. In the late 1960s/early 1970s it was Perry's Dance Studio on the second floor. Entrance up the steps at the right end facing the facade. Previously located at North Highland across from Yucca, it relocated here when the Holiday Inn Hotel was built. Perry's Studios was frequented by the dance greats of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, closing in the early 1970s. Hollywood's Silver Screen greats, Carmelita Marracci a Ballet Legend, Ted Howard for Tap, Martha Gra