Cuban Theater Digital Archive

The Versailles


This café-teatro operated at the Versailles Hotel. This 1940s postcard for the hotel announces "restricted clientele," a code phrase that meant Blacks and Jews were not allowed. Néstor Cabell owned the café-teatro until the hotel became a condominium.

Notes:

Image courtesy of Belle Isle Blog.

Object details:

Physical object type:
Advertising postcards
Digital object format:
Image
Object ID:
cta0029000009
Collection:
Theater Ephemera Digital Collection
License:
University of Miami copyright policy

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