Jimmy Morton: They were mostly Brooklynites, mostly local people came. Every now and then people from Harlem might come by. There were French jazz people who heard about  Tony’s [Grand Dean] –  Andre Renard would come by. It was unusual for white people to be there. Usually I would end up questioning them, wondering how they got there. There was a popular columnist at that time called  Dorothy Kilgallen, and she began to mention  Tony’s [Grand Dean] in her column, and all kinds of strange people began showing up that ordinarily wouldn’t even be there. She mentioned it in her column and it was getting to be known.  Tony’s [Grand Dean] was a local  Brooklyn club, but when it got to be more than that it disbanded, which I never understood, when they could have kept going.