Payne's Tap Room
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Sylvia Rideout Bishop operated a tavern in the basement of Payne’s Hotel called the Tap Room. Well-known Black entertainers like Fats Domino and Ike and Tina Turner stayed at the hotel when they were traveling and entertaining through the South on the Chitlin’ Circuit.
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Courtesy of Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society