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East St. Louis, IL Club Manhattan March 29, 1956 St. Louis, MO Masonic Temple St. Louis American Cooking School and Home Show [13] April 9, 1956 Club Riviera: Musicians Dance and Celebrity Night benefit [14] June 8, 1956 Club Bolo The Igoe Guys and Dolls dance promotion [15] August 10, 1956 Laclede Theatre August–September 1956 Latin Quarter
The Sheldon, designed by the noted 1904 World’s Fair architect Louis C. Spiering, was built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Musicians and public speakers throughout the years have enjoyed the perfect acoustics of The Sheldon Concert Hall, earning The Sheldon its reputation as "The Carnegie Hall of St. Louis."
Guns and Roses Riot - On July 2, 1991 concert at the then-brand new Riverport Amphitheatre (now known as Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre) in nearby Maryland Heights, Mo., erupted into a violent and bloody riot, injuring 65 people — including 25 police officers — and resulting in dozens of arrests and hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage.
It includes Third Baptist Church, the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre Company, [3] the Grand Center Arts Academy, KDHX Community Media, St. Louis Public Radio (KWMU), the Kranzberg Arts Center, and the headquarters of the Nine Network of Public Media (KETC), a PBS affiliate. [4] It is near the Grand MetroLink station.
Westport was built by a prominent St. Louis developer, Thomas J. White, [2] and opened in 1973. [3] Westport since has grown to over 700,000 square feet (65,000 m 2 ) of office buildings, restaurants, entertainment venues, and hotels. [ 4 ]
St. Louis is home to the Fox Theatre, located in Grand Center, which presents Broadway shows and concert or speaking events. Other theaters include The Muny, a summer musical theatre located in Forest Park and founded in 1919; the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the city's major regional theatre, founded in 1966; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, an annual summer opera festival co-founded by ...
The Greater St. Louis metropolitan area has many cultural institutions and museums including: The Gateway Arch and the Museum of Westward Expansion . The Museum of Westward Expansion is an underground museum beneath the Gateway Arch focusing on St. Louis' role in the expansion and settling of the United States west of the Mississippi River ...
The area gets its name from a streetcar turnaround, or "loop", formerly located in the area. [2]Delmar Boulevard was originally known as Morgan Street. According to Norbury L. Wayman in his circa 1980 series History of St. Louis Neighborhoods, [3] the name Delmar was coined when two early landowners living on opposite sides of the road, one from Delaware and one from Maryland, combined the ...