Catering for a mainly black audience, the building was turned into what could only be described today as a multiplex facility.

It would attract African Americans from across the city and it's reckoned about 75% of their number would have visited the club in it's heyday. 

Colourful attire was the norm too, as the clientele took a pride in how they dressed.

Fred Shockley Jr. recalls :

"I remember going to the Twenty Grand on Sunday evenings. I remember seeing the Temps, Originals, Supremes, for sure. But I also remember the "not so famous" groups, the Deans, the Turbans, The Love Tones (weren't they the back up group for Mary Wells?), Emmanuel on guitar with (????..forgot the group), the Emeralds, Johnnie Mae Matthews, Spyder Turner, on and on......."

Notes thanks to David Meikle