Hal & Mal's

The partnership began as a rivalry. In 1975 Hal White and his brother Malcolm were assistant general managers of competing Hattiesburg hotels, Hal at a Holiday Inn and Malcolm at a Ramada. Malcolm signed the lease on a Commerce Street warehouse in 1983, and with the drinking age about to change in 1985, Hal moved to Jackson and worked nights elsewhere while the brothers renovated by day. Hal ran the soups; Malcolm booked the bands. A decade-long boom faded as casinos in Vicksburg and on the Coast outbid the club for acts. Hal died in 2013.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — steps away
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.3 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Farish Street Historic District — 0.7 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.6 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Temple Beth Israel — 0.2 mi
• First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi
• Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church — 0.4 mi
• Original SEC Office — 0.6 mi