The ornate walls of the One Eyed Jacks showroom, with capacity for 300 people, are adorned with bright scarlet vinyl stools and adorned with mid-20th century pinup nudes painted on black velvet, creating a loud and flashy atmosphere that is appropriate to its history as a former movie theater in the French Quarter and renowned speakeasies. The floor is slightly raked, ensuring that there is no bad view in the room, which is downtown New Orleans' main destination for tours with independent artists, trendy local bands and DJ nights, such as the popular Fast Times dance party of the 80s on Thursday nights. University students, old punks and visitors alike are lucky enough to experience the coolest place in the touristic neighborhood. The weathered wooden walls of the narrow Preservation Hall showroom still look the same as they did more than 50 years ago, when a group of bohemian fanatics began organizing traditional jazz concerts there with artists who were at least as old as the music itself.
Lines begin to form just after sunset for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, or one of its associated groups, to play night sets at 8, 9 and 10 p.m. In recent years, especially during major local events such as the Jazz Fest, the Hall has expanded its scope to present nighttime collaborations between the Hall's regular band and special guests such as Alabama Shakes, Robert Plant, Sharon Jones and even old school rebound rapper DJ Jubilee. Bourbon Street is legendary and a destination for most visitors to New Orleans, and music is part of its history. The Treme neighborhood is a historic incubator for New Orleans' many local party sounds (funk, music from marching bands, R&B) and the relaxed Bullet's is located in the center of the city.
In the first month of 1977, a group of young music fanatics from New Orleans—history knows them as the Fabulous Fourteen—pooled their money to open a nightclub uptown in the city that could offer a regular concert to the elderly rhythm and blues pianist Professor Longhair.
