Wendo Kolosoy called ""Windsor"" (a homage to the Duke of Windsor and a play on the British Royalty theme of his band "Victoria Kin") which evolved into ""Wendo Sor"" and simply ""Sor"". He is most widely known as Wendo or Papa Wendo. In the mid-1940s, he began playing guitar around the capital Kinshasa (then Leopoldville) with his Cuban style band Victoria Bakolo Miziki. He had met Nicolas Jéronimidis, a Greek businessman, on a steamer returning to Leopoldville from Dakar in 1946, and in 1947 Jéronimidis agreed to record Wendo's music for his new Leopoldville based record label Ngoma. Imitating the bandleader Paul
Mid-City Mall taken over by a new bar, The Back Door, which remains in business. In 1987, a comedy club called the Funny Farm opened in a space that had previously been Noble Roman's and then Nick's Restaurant. The Funny Farm space has remained a comedy club, going through several name changes, most recently The Laughing Derby at Comedy Caravan. In 1988, a large thrift store called the "Nearly-New Shop" moved to the mall's basement, in a location that had previously been a roller skating rink. The Nearly New Shop remains in business at the same location today. In the late 1970s