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The Apollo Theater in Harlem. 
Like today, it was also a Friday, 90 years ago exactly, Jan. 26, 1934, when a shuttered burlesque house on 125th St. reopened as the Apollo Theater. Unlike Hurtig and Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater, which didn't allow Black patrons or performers from the time it debuted 20 years earlier, the Apollo had no restrictions and welcomed African-Americans to grace its stage and fill its seats.
