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[[image: photo of man speaking into microphone out in the street, in front of UNITED MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE building. ]] [[caption]] REV. KENYETTA [[/caption]]
[[image: photo of older man wearing raincoat who speaks into microphone he's holding, his mouth wide open]] [[caption]] HULAN JACK[[/caption]]
[[image: photo of man whospeaks into the microphone he's holding]] [[caption]] CARL McCALL [[/caption]]
[[image: photo of man in suit and tie on the street, speaking to someone off-camera [[caption]] "PORK CHOP" DAVIS [[/caption]]
[[image: photo of man speaking into microphone with concerned look on his face]] [[caption]] REV. DOUGHTERY [[/caption]]
I also remember the Apex people upstairs on the corner of 135th Street & Seventh.

Also on a sidestreets was Walter Baker's photo shop. Mr. Baker specialized in taking pictures of West Indians. Just like Mr. Toppin on 122nd and Lenox Avenue, who got all the West Indians funeral trade.

James Vanderzee, the famed photographer of the century was at 123rd and Lenox Avenue.

Lenox Avenue was dotted with fruit stands and small mom & pop business and some drugstores, shoe stores and bars. The biggest money make of my youth on Lenox Avenue was the Savoy Ballroom where Charlie Buchanan was king.

The Savoy and the Renaissance ballrooms were the places where all of our dances and social activies were held.

The Savoy was to New York as the Grand Terrace was to Chicago. The Savoy bandstand presented orchestras led by Willie Bryant, Teddy Hill, Buddy Johnson, Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald, Earl Bostic, Jimmy Lunceford Cab Calloway, Lockwood Lewis and other orchestras, liek Fess Williams, Santo Domingo Serenaders, Fletcher Henderson, Charlie Johnson, & Duke Ellington.

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