Seventy-six years ago today, the Apollo Theater re-opened in Harlem. Before this date in 1934, the Apollo catered to an all-white crowd, left over from the theater’s early days as a burlesque venue. Reflecting Harlem’s rapid changes in the 1920s and 30s as the center of African-American life in New York, however, the new owners Sydney S. Cohen and Morris Sussman revamped and reopened the theater on January 26, 1934, for the first time offering entertainment for black audiences. (via The Bowery Boys: New York City History: Happy Re-Birthday, Apollo Theater!)