1982

The Fab Four, 1/29/82
Tiffany Jones, Naomi Sims, Donna Day, Hot Chocolate
This was the first booking with all of them together,
which became a regular event

  

Copa 1982 Pride Float
with Hot Chocolate and Naomi Sims

  

Sylvester! with Hot Chocolate & Naomi Sims

I asked Larry Edwards (Hot Chocolate) on 5/10/22, if Gene Howle had any sort of 'arrangement' with
the Fab Four that pretty much got them exclusively (in Houston ) at the Copa, and they did not
appear anywhere else, at least from 1982-1986.

We were very loyal to Gene Howle. It was understood we only performed at the Copa on Sundays...
Naomi & I did a quick guest spot with Sylvester at Numbers after our Copa show..all of our guests
followed us over there. Gene Howle wasn't amused. Every since that special performance with
Sylvester we made an agreement to only perform at the Copa

  

1983

Beaumont Copa

First Tasha Kohl appearance

  

  

First Fab Five booking

  

Fab Four Copa photos, circa 1983, courtesy Johnny Perez

  

  

  

1984

First billing as the "Fantastic Five"

Beaumont club

  

Above and Below, 1984 Copa Pride Float, with Naomi and Donna

San Antonio Copa....coming

It was was open until 9/4/86,
its last TWT Guide listing below

Below, the only time I've seen all three locations mentioned in a single ad

Sadly, Tiffany Jones died April 18, 1985...these holiday shows were her last

1985

San Antonio Copa

Below, Pride Parade with Copa float, 1985

Below, 1985 Copa float

below, two joint ads for the Copas in Houston and San Antonio

1986

Below left, San Antonio club

  

February 28th

New Logo !
Copa II ?

  

and it was indeed given as "Copa II" in the TWT Guide for a while, but obviously not in their ads

 

Hot Chocolate moved to Las Vegas in 1986,
and made only a few reunion shows before the club closed

 

San Antonio club

  

  

Below left, San Antonio Club

  

  

  

  

Teen Night??

   

 

the last show

and, who is Maruska Mayo, and when did ownership change?
well, I found her obituray, a straight woman who died in 2014 at age 79,
so she would have been 51 in 1986

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and, as the clipping indicated, by the end of October the performers had moved to Numbers