RUTH ETTING, "AMERICA'S QUEEN OF SONG" AND THE (NOW) Omelette Parlor
The curious and popular building at 900 East Filmore known as the Omelette Parlor was formerly the Hackney House. Prior to that it was the home of America's Queen of Song, Ruth Etting. In the 20's and 30's nobody was more popular than Ruth Etting. Songs like "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "A Dime A Dance" made her famous. Her personal life was less happy. Her manager Moe "da Gimp" Snyder took exception to her new love and shot him, not fatally. Ruth and her husband Mryl Alderman moved to the Springs and in 1938 opened the T-Bone Club, a steak house on the north fringe of the city. She and Myrl lived on as semi-celebrities until their deaths in 1966 and 1979 respectively. Today the T-Bone Club is preserved at the Omelette Parlor.
The curious and popular building at 900 East Filmore known as the Omelette Parlor was formerly the Hackney House. Prior to that it was the home of America's Queen of Song, Ruth Etting. In the 20's and 30's nobody was more popular than Ruth Etting. Songs like "Button Up Your Overcoat" and "A Dime A Dance" made her famous. Her personal life was less happy. Her manager Moe "da Gimp" Snyder took exception to her new love and shot him, not fatally. Ruth and her husband Mryl Alderman moved to the Springs and in 1938 opened the T-Bone Club, a steak house on the north fringe of the city. She and Myrl lived on as semi-celebrities until their deaths in 1966 and 1979 respectively. Today the T-Bone Club is preserved at the Omelette Parlor.
Colorado Springs in 1938 would have been a good place to dodge the pressure of a showbiz relationship gone bad. From '38 to the 60's Ruth and Myrl ran the T-Bone Club.
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