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Upstairs Inferno is a 2015 American documentary film written, produced, and directed by Robert L. Camina. It chronicles the events surrounding the UpStairs Lounge arson attack on June 24, 1973, in New Orleans , Louisiana and the city's response to the tragedy.
The UpStairs Lounge arson attack, sometimes called the UpStairs Lounge Fire, occurred on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar called the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge located on the 2nd floor of the 3-story building at 604 Iberville Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. [2]
The View UpStairs is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Max Vernon based on the real-life events of the 1973 arson attack at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans. This attack resulted in the deaths of 32 people, the deadliest attack [1] on a gay club in U.S. history before the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting. The show is inspired ...
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The top floor hosted a cocktail lounge called "Top of the Mart" from the 1970s through 2001. The bar slowly rotated once per hour. After this, a bar called "360" (as in degrees) opened in its place, which remained until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The World Trade Center closed in June 2011 and the building was purchased by the city of New Orleans.
However, 604 Iberville street is the correct address of the Upstairs Lounge. Additionally, I deleted any mention that the Upstairs lounge was located in the French Quarter, as that is an adjacent neighborhood instead of the location of the bar. If the address has been listed incorrectly, I question what other inaccuracies may exist on this page.
Its cover story, “Dear New Orleans,” is a love letter to the people, places and spaces of New Orleans, company executives said. 30th annual Essence Festival of Culture kicks off in New Orleans ...
Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean), also known as Faubourg St. John, is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Mid-City area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Broad Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south, and the Bayou St. John waterway, the neighborhood's namesake, to the west.