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- catalog abstract "As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar in the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer, but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing and musical acts. Soon after arriving in Detroit, Wilson started emceeing shows and booking gigs at clubs. He bought restaurants, like the popular Brown Bomber Chicken Shack in Paradise Valley, and bought the Mark Twain hotel on Garfield off of Woodward to sleep on-the-rise performers not welcome at white establishments, including Duke Ellington and B.B. King. He met and made friends with musicians Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, and Lionel Hampton, and still counts Joe Louis as one of his best friends. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflects on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years. Through Sunnie Wilson's narrative, Detroit's glory age comes alive, bringing back nights at the hopping Forest Club on Hastings Street, which hosted music greats like Nat King Cole and boasted the longest bar in Michigan, and sunny afternoons at Lake Idlewild, the largest black resort in the United States that attracted thousands every weekend from all over the midwest.".
- catalog contributor b10435264.
- catalog contributor b10435265.
- catalog coverage "Detroit (Mich.) History.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "As part of the great migration of southern blacks to the north, Sunnie Wilson came to Detroit from South Carolina after graduating from college, and soon became a pillar in the local music industry. He started out as a song and dance performer, but found his niche as a local promoter of boxing and musical acts.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.".
- catalog description "Soon after arriving in Detroit, Wilson started emceeing shows and booking gigs at clubs. He bought restaurants, like the popular Brown Bomber Chicken Shack in Paradise Valley, and bought the Mark Twain hotel on Garfield off of Woodward to sleep on-the-rise performers not welcome at white establishments, including Duke Ellington and B.B. King. He met and made friends with musicians Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, and Lionel Hampton, and still counts Joe Louis as one of his best friends. Part oral history, memoir, and biography, Toast of the Town draws from hundreds of hours of taped conversations between Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey, as Wilson reflects on the changes in Detroit over the last sixty years.".
- catalog description "Through Sunnie Wilson's narrative, Detroit's glory age comes alive, bringing back nights at the hopping Forest Club on Hastings Street, which hosted music greats like Nat King Cole and boasted the longest bar in Michigan, and sunny afternoons at Lake Idlewild, the largest black resort in the United States that attracted thousands every weekend from all over the midwest.".
- catalog extent "200 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0814326951 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Great Lakes books".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Detroit : Wayne State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Detroit (Mich.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Michigan Detroit".
- catalog spatial "Michigan Detroit.".
- catalog subject "647.94/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "African American businesspeople Michigan Detroit.".
- catalog subject "Hotelkeepers Michigan Detroit Biography.".
- catalog subject "Louis, Joe, 1914-1981.".
- catalog subject "TX910.5.W58 A3 1998".
- catalog subject "Wilson, Sunnie, 1908-".
- catalog subject "Wilson, Sunnie, 1908-1999.".
- catalog title "Toast of the town : the life and times of Sunnie Wilson / Sunnie Wilson with John Cohassey.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".