”Harry Belafonte’s explosive popularity in the late 1950s touched off a new craze for calypso-themed music; Hollywood films; West-Indian-inspired ruffled shirts and 'Calypso Cut' hairdos targeted at a mainstream white audience.”
"The club’s founders—Harry Gairey; Kermit Lynn; Jim Moxley and Clarence Lucey—provided help to West Indian immigrants of all backgrounds helping clear the hurdles of the immigration process; recommending employment agencies or boarding houses; or…
”A landmark for tourists and an entertaining shopping experience for all. Honest Ed's was a one-of-a-kind bargain centre that had everything from wine to twine.”
”A charity organization focused on the black and West Indian community acted as a social gathering space with weekly dances and jam sessions with musicians from the 1920s to the 1940s and offered opportunities to socialize.”