Summers Hotel and Subway Lounge

{{Short description|Demolished hotel in Jackson, Mississippi}}

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The Summers Hotel was located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, and was the city's first black-owned hotel. W. J. Summers established it in 1944 and many black musicians lodged there during the era of segregation. The Subway Lounge was opened in the basement in 1966. The Subway was a regular jazz venue and offered popular late-night blues shows from the mid-1980s until the hotel's demolition in 2004.{{cite web |accessdate=2008-12-27 |title=Summers Hotel and Subway Lounge at the Mississippi Blues Trail|url=http://www.msbluestrail.org/blues_trail/river/downtown/subway/subway.swf}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}{{cite web|title=Subway Lounge|url=http://everythingandnothing.typepad.com/mississippi/2005/11/subway_lounge_f.html|publisher=Everythingandnothing.typepad.com |accessdate=2012-07-23 }}

The Subway Lounge was featured in the 2003 documentary film, Last of the Mississippi Jukes.{{cite web |accessdate=2008-12-27 |title="Last of the Mississippi Jukes" Director's Notes|author=Robert Mugge|url=http://www.robertmugge.com/jukes_notes.htm|publisher=Robertmugge.com}}

It has a marker as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail.{{cite web|url=http://msbluestrail.org/blues_marker_list |title=The Mississippi Blues Trail - Complete List of Installed Markers |publisher=Msbluestrail.org |date= |accessdate=2015-03-12}}