Vaudeville – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Sat, 18 May 2013 17:08:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Harpo Marx is a piano player at the Happy Times Tavern ../../../harpo-marx-plays-piano-at-the-happy-times-tavern/ ../../../harpo-marx-plays-piano-at-the-happy-times-tavern/#respond Fri, 03 May 2013 02:10:26 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=1763 c Summer 1907

The Schang Hotel includes the Happy Times Tavern which is a brothel catering to men hired to dig canals in Coes’ Neck and Freeport. It’s operated by the Schang family gang. Marx is fired when he contracts the measles. Soon after the Schangs are convicted of burglary and suspected of murder. Chico Marx later reveals that he also worked at the Happy Times Tavern sometime previously.

The hotel is located north of the future site of the Freeport Recreation Center, on the south side of Merrick Road.

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