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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

America's first great Black LGBTQ+ discotheque still fills its dance floors on Pico Boulevard. Catch One - for 42 years Jewel's Catch One - occupies a 1925 Mediterranean Revival building at 4067 West Pico Boulevard in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles. Jewel Thais-Williams, a UCLA history graduate turned entrepreneur, opened the club in 1973 after being turned away from West Hollywood clubs for being Black and a woman; a state law then barred women from tending bar unless they owned the venue, so s...