Subway Lounge

The Subway Lounge was a hole in the wall under the Summers Hotel, with buckets of iced beer and Blues Dogs for the crowd. Weekend shows ran from midnight to 4 a.m., and a Living Blues writer called it about the only place in Jackson where middle-class whites and inner-city Black patrons met on common ground. Singer Eddie Cotton recalled that you needed a reputation to get on the stage. The 2003 documentary Last of the Mississippi Jukes filmed the room, and the building was demolished in 2004.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.5 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.
• Old Capitol Museum — 1.0 mi
  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 — 1.1 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.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.0 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

• Scott Radio Service — 0.2 mi
• Jesse Robinson — 0.3 mi
• Edwards Hotel — 0.3 mi
• Noel House — 0.4 mi