Post #637101 by kenbo-jitsu on Fri, May 18, 2012 6:35 PM

Not much progress on this. I’ve learned the building was originally a restaurant named “Chick-N-Box” (not sure I like the sound of that name or not) which was sold (when?) to James P. “Jimmy” Vallas. Mr. Vallas was born in 1921 probably in Ohio. His parents were immigrants from Greece. He had an older sister and three younger brothers, many or all of whom had settled in Mobile, Alabama and between them they owned a number of clubs and restaurants there.

I don’t know if Jimmy Vallas continued to operate the Chick-N-Box as such for a while or not, but at some point (I’m guessing 1964 or earlier) he converted the Chick-N-Box to the Tiki Supper Club. Later (mid 1970’s?) the restaurant became Nights of Broadway, and then The Entertainer Dinner Theater. I don’t know if Mr. Vallas sold the Tiki Supper Club or if he continued to own the restaurant through these transformations. I also don’t know what ultimately happened to the place. For at least the last several years the building (or a newer building on the same lot?) has housed a children’s day care center.