Club Zara opens.

Owned by Bacchus Entertainment, it is located at 475 Tremont Street.  Boston’s first Middle-Eastern nightclub, it is managed by Joseph Teebagy and his wife, Laurice, who is a singer and one of the earliest belly dancers to perform in Boston, performing under the stage name “Morrocco”. The building is destroyed by fire on September 19, 1954, and later reopens at 390 Tremont Street. A popular nightspot, it is open 7 days a week, but plagued by police raids because of their “immoral shows”, and finally shut down in after losing its alcohol license in May 1960. Rizk says, “We were famous all over. People were lined up and down the street, you had to make a reservation, like a week before. And we had all high-class people, lots of Americans.” We had lawyers and doctors and senators. In fact , John Kennedy used to come in.”