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Ike Bloom
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Ike Bloom (died December 15, 1930) was an organized crime figure in Chicago and an associate of Jim Colosimo. A successful nightclub owner, particularly the Midnight Forlics and Kreiberg's, a well known dance hall in The Levee vice district. The Midnight Frolics was the club in which comedian Joe E. Lewis first began his career in 1926.
Born Isaac Gitelson Bloom, he ran numerous social clubs after opening the popular Frieburg's Dance Hall in 1895. Although Freiburg's closed in 1914, it was later reopened during Prohibition and renamed Midnight Frolics [1] among other speakeasies during Prohibition. Known as "King of the Brothels", he was involved in white slavery as well as prostitution as a partner with Colosimo and others in the Everleigh Club following its grand opening in 1911 [2].
Following Colosimo's death, he would give the eulogy at his funeral which was attended by more than 5,000 people [5]. He would later become involved with John Torrio and Al Capone, with Capone later owning %25 of the Midnight Frolics.
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Miami, Florida
Sally Rand Miami Herald Article: August 20, 1967
By 1935 she was drawing 1,800 persons a night at the old Merry-Go Round at Biscayne and 86th St. [Miami] A few years later she danced in The Miami Herald parking lot. Of course, at that time it was the Frolics Club. Later, she was a frequent star at Palm Island's Latin Quarter and the Olympia for $2,500 a week.
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Arranger and conductor Richard Maltby led a very popular and very talented dance band during the 1950s. The youngest of five children, Maltby began writing arrangements in the eight grade. By the time he was in high school he had his own five-piece ensemble. At age 16 he went to work as a trumpeter for Fritz Miller's dance band at Chicago's Royal Frolics Club. In the early 1930s he played with Little Jack Little.
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Moe Dalitz -- Miami Beach
Kefauver Crime Committee
ORGANIZED CRIME IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE 907
TESTIMONY OF MORRIS DALITZ, DETROIT, MICH., ACCOMPANIED BY CHARLES CARR, ATTORNEY, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
The CHAIRMAN. Now, Mr. Dalitz, did you have an interest in the Frolics Club in Miami Beach, Fla.?
Mr. DALITZ. I stand on my constitutional rights and refuse answer.
The CHAIRMAN. You refuse to say whether you have any interest in the Frolics Club in Miami?
Mr. DALITZ. Miami, Fla.?
The CHAIRMAN. Yes.
Mr. DALITZ. I don't really remember.
Mr. CARR. May I have another consultation, Senator?
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Moe Delitz -- Miami
Following the war and before Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver drove the Syndicate boys to Havana and Las Vegas, Dalitz became a powerhouse who owned laundries and gambling halls. In Miami, he co-owned the Frolics Club with New York partners. After Kefauver's Senate Rackets Commission focused on the evils of gambling, the Frolics Club closed down.
Following Prohibition, Mo Delitz became the undisputed crime boss of Cleveland, expanding his criminal operations-- gambling, labor, racketeering, money laundering, tax evasion--from Hollywood and Las Vegas to Miami.
One of his Miami investments, a night spot called the Frolic Club, was a joint-venture with Meyer Lansky.
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