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Tropicana - Lefty Clark's New Casino, c1950s. Tropicana, also known as Tropicana Club, is a world-known cabaret and club in Havana, Cuba, was opened in 1939 at Villa Mina, a six-acre estate with lush tropical gardens in Havana's Marianao neighborhood. The club helped to spread Cuban culture internationally. It bore the name of Harry Lefty Clark (aliases: William Gusto, William G. Buschoff, Frank Bischoff), an associate of Floridian mobster Santo Louie Santos Trafficante Jr who owned or held stakes in the Tropicana.