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Located in St. Louis at 6161 Delmar Boulevard on the east end of the Delmar Loop, The Pageant has been described by the Riverfront Times as "St. Louis' premier midsize venue". [1] Inside is a bar called The Halo Bar; as of December 2010 [update] , it was open every night regardless of whether there is a performance.
For example, Downtown St. Louis is generally thought to include the St. Louis Union Station and Enterprise Center, even though Downtown technically ends at Tucker Avenue (12th Street). Additionally, the Fox Theatre and Powell Symphony Hall are popularly considered a part of Midtown St. Louis even though they are in Grand Center.
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 ...
The neighborhood was founded in 1908, part of a period of major development and rapid growth in the area following the 1904 World's Fair and Olympic Games. [2] In 1914, Hamilton Elementary School was founded, and the 1910s also saw the building of three new churches that today are still present in the neighborhood: Grace Methodist, New Cote Brilliante Baptist, and St. Roch Catholic, which also ...
[18] [20] [21] The effects are especially evident in maternal and infant health outcomes: Black babies in St. Louis die at nearly “three times the rate of their white counterparts (13.5 vs. 4.4 deaths per 1,000 live births)”. [19] Additionally, there is an 18-year gap in life expectancy at birth between the areas in north and south St ...
This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Missouri. The area codes are allocated within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The two original area codes for Missouri in 1947 were 314 and 816. Area code 417 was split off from 816 in 1950, and the other area codes followed more than 40 years later, due to the proliferation of ...
University City-Big Bend Subway Station is along the Blue Line, near Washington University. The St. Louis metropolitan area is served by MetroLink (known as Metro) and is the 11th-largest light rail system in the country with 46 mi (74 km) of double track light rail. The Red Line and The Blue Line both serve all the stations in the inner city ...
It is often mistaken as the location of Sally Benson's home, 5135 Kensington Avenue, which is the setting of her stories which were adapted into the movie Meet Me in St. Louis. 5135 Kensington Avenue was actually located in the Academy neighborhood just across Delmar Boulevard. It is no longer standing, having been torn down in 1994 after years ...