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Picture of the Heavenly Gospel Singers was a featured recording group at Hotel Charlotte RCA Studio.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941. This black and white photograph shows the audience from the stage.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941, showing the founder and director, Guillermo S. de Roxlo.

This photograph of the Old Salem Orchestra, is from a book called "The Salem Band", by Bernard J. Pfohl. In the photograph fourteen bandmenbers can be seen and their names are listed below:
Seated: H.V. Leinbach, W.P. Ormsby, George F. Markgraff,…

The item is a page insert from the Forty Anniversary Booklet of the Excelsior Club in 1984. Features the first band that played at the Excelsior Club during the 1950's.

A rare picture of DJ David " Jo Jo" Samuels. Taken from a 1965 article discussing the arrival of WRPL radio station in Charlotte.

Current image of the Grady Cole Center located off of Kings Dr. The Grady Cole Center was built on the same grounds as the Armory Auditorium was formerly known as The Park Center.

This is a detail from a photograph of the east block of South Tryon Street between Fourth and Third Streets showing the Opera House. The Opera House was a wide brick front gable building with businesses downstairs and an auditorium upstairs. The…

Ernie K-Doe performs his hit song " Sittin on My Ya-ya, Waiting for My La-La" to a packed house at The Park Center.

The Excelsior Club serves as a social and political gathering place for many of the city's black leaders in the late 1940s and throughout the decades to come.It was also served as a music venue for local artist.