When Lorraine Sylvester, the namesake of Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club, was a girl, she already had a knack for making entertainment into a family business.
She convinced her family, who lived on Dumaine Street in Treme, to host "penny parties," in which all the neighborhood children would pay 1 cent in exchange for lemonade and entertainment -- provided by Lorraine and her sisters, Melvina and Sonja.
From Nola.com by Molly Reid
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