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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Arizona Nightclub Budapest 1938

Arizona Night Club

Continuing to read Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst. Nicholas Morath, our hero, take the night train to Budapest where he visits the Arizona night club. It's kind of a wild place.

Dancers of the Arizona Nightclub in Budapest in 1938. They Are Climbing Onto A Boat Under The Dumbfounded Gaze Of The Sailors.

From a story in the Independent:

Around the corner in the magnificent green-tiled building at Nagymezo utca 20 you come to the Hungarian House of Photography. The first-floor shop displays the depth of Hungary's photographic tradition (think of Kertesz, Brassai and Moholy-Nagy) and the temporary exhibitions are usually worth a look. Before the Second World War, the building housed the Arizona Club, which wowed Patrick Leigh Fermor when he visited. But in 1944 The Arizona's owners were killed in the Holocaust – a reminder that the wartime ghetto was not far away on the other side of Andrassy ut.

Mai Manó Ház, Nagymező utca 20, circa 1900


Near as I can make out, this poster is advertising the accomplishments of the photographers Mai & Tarsa

Mai Manó Ház, Nagymező utca 20, Today

Chain Bridge and the Hungarian Parliament Building

The Chain Bridge connects Buda & Pest and is not far from the Hungarian House of Photography / Arizona Night Club.


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