Ball & Chain

A historic live music venue at 1513 SW 8th Street in Little Havana, originally opened in 1935. The musician Harry Gibson appeared at the Ball & Chain nightclub in Miami on the same bill as Billie Holiday during the Christmas season of 1956. No dedicated encyclopedia article for the venue exists — only passing mentions in others — so the details of its closure in the 1935 era and its later reopening are not established here, and neither are its current hours, ownership or offerings. Its own site is live, but a business's own site cannot establish that it is trading, and no independent dated source could be reached.