Also naming Oxford Street between Broad Street and 15th Street as "Jake and Sarah Adams Avenue."

Also naming Oxford Street between Broad Street and 15th Street as “Jake and Sarah Adams Avenue.” WHEREAS, Since 1978, Jacob “Jake” Adams has owned New Barber’s Hall in North Philadelphia. The Black-owned jazz bar has played host to jazz and R&B acts such as Dottie Smith, Robert “Bootsie” Barnes, Billy Paul, and Grover Washington Jr., and was patronized by the likes of Miles Davis, Isaac Hayes, Patti LaBelle, the Temptations, and “Smokin’” Joe Frazier; and WHEREAS, Built in the 1860s, the three-story building in which New Barber’s Hall would later occupy started as a single-family home before it was renovated to become a clubhouse for the Quaker City Wheelmen, a chapter of a national bicycling organization. In the ensuing decades, the building was used by a variety of progressive social clubs, including the Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Many of the clubs were organized by ethnic and racial groups; and WHEREAS, Before Adams purchased the site with his older brother, it was owned by the National Barber’s Sunshine Club, a social organization for Black barbers at which jazz musicians staying in the nearby integrated Chesterfield Hotel would perform. The National Barber’s Sunshine Club emerged as North Philadelphia was becoming a center for the City’s Black population. The group hosted professional development events, such as wig manufacturing courses; and WHEREAS, As members of the National Barber’s Sunshine Club aged and passed on, the members want…