Sunday 19 April 2009

Hand Signals At The Stork Club

The Stork Club was a famous Manhattan night club that was founded by Oklahoma native and ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley and operated continuously from 1929 - 1965. The NYC hot spot was a destination for celebrities, artists, writers and wealthy people in general.


When Billingsley was talking to his guests, there was always an assistant nearby watching his hand gestures. Here's a series of images of Mr. Billingsley demonstrating his own brand of nightclub-code via these gestures.

(via Everlasting Blort)

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