[QUOTE=GaylordWilshire;5265255]I thought we'd covered the Nikabob and El Cholo at some point, but danged if I can find them on a search of the thread...
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I was reading recently about pulp writers from the 1930's. In an article on Norbert Davis who wrote for Black Mask, Dime Detective and others, I came across this...
Norbert Davis lived in the Los Angeles area during most of his writing career. He associated with other pulp writers and was a member of the Fictioneers, a writers' club founded by W. T. Ballard and Cleve Adams. The group of about twenty-five members met once a month in the Nikabob Cafe at 875 South Western Avenue in Los Angeles. The meetings were informal and their real purpose, Ballard recalls, "was to get comfortably drunk and then en masse attend one of the local burlesque theatres."