Club Hollywood was founded approximately 1934 by Joseph Schensul (1898-1965). Club Hollywood was a nightclub located at 329 Portage St. Kalamazoo, Michigan, serving various spirits as well as entertaining patrons with live music, dancing, magic shows, teen nights, and other forms of leisure. The Club Hollywood building stood in downtown Kalamazoo Michigan and operated for around twenty years, from ca. 1934 until the winter of 1954 when it was shut down. Consumers Power Co. leased the building later that year.

Joseph Schensul attended Kalamazoo College and developed an interest in the restaurant industry leading him to open several businesses including Sweetheart Shop (1920), Brown & Gold (1922), Club Hollywood, and Schensul Cafeteria (1938) which he eventually expanded to include eleven Schensul cafeterias in Michigan and Indiana by 1974. Joseph Schensul included his family in his businesses making his brother Irving Schensul the manager of the original Kalamazoo location, and having his children work in the location as well.