The Bagdad Supper Club was a theater and entertainment venue located on north side of what then was U.S. Route 80, but now is Texas State Highway 180, east of Grand Prairie, Texas, at the corner of Bagdad Road and Main Street. It opened Thanksgiving Day 1928, eleven months before the Great Crash of 1929. It was an opulent palatial facility that offered dining, dancing, and music. The venue was featured in the 1947 comedy Juke Joint, starring Spencer Williams. J. Wiley Day was the inaugural managing director. The club was constructed by the Bagdad Enterprises, Inc., a Texas corporation, controlled by Eastern capital. The corporation was a subsidiary of a large Eastern company that confined itself to various theatrical lines. The architect was W. Scott Dunne (1886–1937), a well-known designer of theaters in Texas. Facilities The building was a Moorish style, two-story building, clad in pinkish gray stucco. The exterior had rounded spires, influenced by old buildings of the Moors. It was distinctively oriental in all of its features. The building was built on . The building was set back three hundred feet from the road and featured a horseshoe driveway to the main entry. There was a walkway leading to the entry with a large fountain in the center. When the club opened, it had a parking lot for over three hundred automobiles. The interior featured a stage, dance floor, dining rooms, and lounging rooms. The dance floor was billed as the largest in the Southwest. The main dining room had a seating capacity of 450. Club managers and lessees Managers 1929–1931: J. Wiley Day 1931: Jimmy Martin 1933: Hal Wortin 1946–1948: Ross Pastory (né Roscoe Joseph Pastory; 1916–1990) took over the club May 1946 Operators 1935: R.S. Sims and D.H. Taylor Lessees 1931: Louis Estes 1949–1950: Lillian May Teague (née Helmston; 1901–1984) and her daughter, Marian Louise Teague (born 1929); and Robert Preston Bridges – Marian and Robert were later married Changes in use Frank H. Newton, MD (1887–1977), and wife, Cosette Faust Newton, PhD (1889–1975), who at one time was Dean of Women as Southern Methodist University, acquired the club in 1945 and closed it in 1950. In September that year, All American News (Emanuel M. Glucksman, manager), a commercial film concern based in Chicago, leased the building as its southwest headquarters and used it for film and TV — commercial short subjects and trailers. They