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Quarry Men Casbah Coffee Club Photograph

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Quarry Men Casbah Coffee Club Photograph
This historic photograph from the August 29, 1959, opening night at the Casbah appeared in the pages of the ‘Liverpool Echo’ in September ‘59. Take a close look and you’ll recognize Cynthia Powell, the future Mrs. Lennon, with a beaming smile that seems to be drawing interest from Paul McCartney. The teen club was opened by Mona Best in the cellar of her family’s Liverpool home and the Quarrymen (John, Paul, George, and guitarist Ken Brown) played seven successive Saturday nights for 3 pounds a night ($5) before Ken Brown’s departure. It would be nearly a year before Mrs. Best’s son, Pete, would become the Beatles drummer just prior to the group’s departure for their first Hamburg visit. Incidentally, Sam Leach holds the copyright on the original negative from which this 5 x 6” print was made in the early 1960’s.