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THE ROYAL PEACOCK
AUBURN AVENUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Opened in 1937 as The Top Hat. The club was purchased in 1949 and renamed The Royal Peacock. Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, B.B. King, Etta James, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, The Supremes, Ike and Tina Turner and many others performed here. The Peacock now features reggae and hip-hop performers.


Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta, Ga. hotel room Nov. 1940

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