Bill Bojangles Robinson Playground

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Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Mural

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Dedicated:	February 27, 1992
Location:	West 150th Street, west side of 7 Avenue
Description:	Mural, period street lamp, plaque
Architect:	Brandon Adams (Landscape architect)
Materials:	Mural--aluminum panels (¼" thick, coated with Duranar Fluoropolymer); plaque--bronze
Dimensions:	H: 15' W: 17 '; Plaque H: 1'4" W: 1'8"
Donor:	Office of the Mayor
Cast:	November 1, 1991

Inscription

BILL 'BOJANGLES' ROBINSON / BILL 'BOJANGLES' ROBINSON (1878-1949) WAS A WELL / KNOWN TAP DANCER FROM THE EARLY 1900's TO THE / LATE 1940's. HE PERFORMED IN THEATERS ON BROADWAY / AND THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, / AND STARRED IN SEVERAL HOLLYWOOD MADE MOVIES. / DANCE CRITICS REFER TO HIM AS THE ''MASTER / OF TAP DANCING." /

BILL ROBINSON RESIDED AT THE DUNBAR APARTMENTS / LOCATED ACROSS WEST 150TH STREET. IN 1934, HE / ARRANGED TO HAVE THE SITE DEVELOPED AS A PUBLIC / PLAYGROUND. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE GAVE GENEROUS / DONATIONS TO AND MADE PERSONAL APPEARANCES / FOR CHARITY CAUSES IN HARLEM AND IN MANY UNITED / STATES CITIES. /

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