Joe Zelli

It was the nocturnal home to many members of the Lost Generation, expatriates who flocked to Paris after the First World War.

Notable clients included Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Buster Keaton, and Louise Brooks.

[2] The club had the most prominent jazz orchestra in Paris at the time and included Sidney Bechet and Eugene Bullard as bandleader.

[3] The filmmaker David McDonald stumbled upon Joe Zelli's grave while on a walk during the height of the pandemic in 2021.

[4][5] A caricaturist named Zito drew guests to the nightclub over a period of four years, making a celebrity wall downstairs.