[3] In 1934, Wilkerson had also opened Cafe Trocadero, and the restaurant La Rue, both on the Strip, and would later originate The Flamingo in Las Vegas, only to have control of the resort wrested from him by mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.

[8] Among the galaxy of celebrities who frequented Ciro's were Marilyn Monroe,[9] Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra,[10] James Dean, Ava Gardner, Sidney Poitier, Anita Ekberg, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Betty Grable, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, George Raft, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Judy Garland, June Allyson and Dick Powell, Mamie Van Doren, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Benny, Peter Lawford, and Lana Turner (who often said Ciro's was her favorite nightspot) among many others.

[11] In December 1951, Herman Hover, owner of Ciro's, was involved with the Lili St. Cyr's indecent exposure case.

[15] Accounts of the period (reproduced in the sleeve notes to The Preflyte Sessions box set) describe a "church-like" atmosphere, with interpretive dancing.

Ciro's became a European high society restaurant chain with branches in Monte Carlo,[23] Paris, London[24] (where Audrey Hepburn danced before her film career[25]), and Deauville.

..." (Ross Bolton)[35]"Louis Adlon, grandson of the proprietor of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon opened Hollywood’s first iteration of Ciro’s in 1934[36][37] (with Erich Alexander[38] and George Sorel[39]) Located on Hollywood Boulevard, the club was informally part of a chain with locations in London, Paris and Berlin.

"[4]"...At one point in the late 1930s there were wildcat Ciro's operating in Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami Beach (designed by George Farkas[40][41][42]), Honolulu, Acapulco, Mexico City, and a host of other places..."[43]