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Peacock Alley (jazz Club)
The Peacock Alley was a jazz club at 2935 Lawton Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri. It was one of St. Louis' most important nightclubs in the 1950s. Due to its close proximity to Union Station, it was favored among musicians. History The venue was located in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood of St. Louis at 2935 Lawton Boulevard (the street no longer exists). Some sources report that it was located in Gaslight Square, although this is incorrect. It initially opened in the basement of the Hotel Midtown as the Glass Bar and Gold Room on November 3, 1944. In 1956, the Glass Bar was remodeled and renamed the Peacock Alley. Peacock Alley was located inside the new Midland Hotel. It was named after the Peacock Alley cocktail bar inside New York's Waldorf-Astoria. The Billy Williams Quartet performed at the opening of the Peacock Alley on April 20, 1956. The Peacock Alley was operated by Al Fein. DJ Spider Burks hosted a radio show at the venue for the jazz radio station KSTL. Burks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Hospital - 2, 2945 Lawton Boulevard
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
