Louis Armstrong and Sarah Vaughn were among the nationally famous entertainers who played in the brick building on this corner, once home to the popular Club Bali, also called the New Bali. Remembered by one former customer as a magic place, with its rear garden lit by strings of lights in the summertime, Club Bali was one of many nightclubs that made the U Street area a mecca for music lovers from the jazz era of the 1920s to the Motown sound of the 1960s. The music often continued late into the night as name entertainers, winding down after formal engagements, played to intimate gatherings in tucked-away after-hours clubs throughout the neighborhood. Fourteenth Street was shared uneasily by Black and White Washingtonians in segregated Washington, where Black and White people owned, managed, and patronized stores along an important commercial corridor that both connected and divided the mostly Black community on the east from the mostly white community on the west. While the White-owned People’s Drug Store at the corner of 14th and U refused to serve African Americans at the counter, most predominantly Black clubs such as the Bali welcomed Whites, making Washington’s nightclub scene one of the city’s few integrated social scenes. Today, both 14th Street and U Street are again becoming venues for the arts and nightlife, as theaters, restaurants, and clubs reuse the neighborhood’s historic buildings, including former car showrooms such as the one once occupied by the Bali, which are well suited to the needs of Washington’s innovative and thriving small theaters.