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In November 2006, it celebrated its twentieth anniversary, at which time QX Magazine referred to it as "The Grand Dame of Queer Street". [5] Comptons is a large, Victorian-style pub with two bars. The ground floor bar is a horse-shoe bar and attracts a varied gay male crowd, including many tourists. Upstairs, there is a lounge area. [6]
Old Compton Street is a road that runs east–west through Soho in the West End of London, named after Henry Compton who raised funds for St Anne's Church in 1686. The area, particularly this street, became home to French Protestant refugees in 1681.
The Admiral Duncan is a public house in Old Compton Street, Soho, in central London that is well known as one of Soho's oldest gay pubs. In 1999, the pub was bombed by neo-Nazi David Copeland , resulting in three people being killed and 83 being injured.
The Slippery Noodle Inn is a large blues bar and restaurant with two performance stages in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It also has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating bar in the state of Indiana, [3] having opened in 1850 as the Tremont House. The Inn served as a stop on the Underground Railroad during the American ...
Crossing Bridge Noodle Restaurant will take the place of the shuttered Bad Waitress restaurant on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis (2 E. 26th St.). Owner Kevin Ni is an experienced local restaurateur.
Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.
Nov. 11—FIVE YEARS AGO, Trumin Nguyen opened Buba Noodle Bar on Lowell Street in Manchester. Now, he's opening a second location at 148 N. Main St. in Concord under the name Buba Kitchen in the ...
The 2i's Coffee Bar was a coffeehouse at 59 Old Compton Street in Soho, London, that was open from 1956 to 1970.It played a formative role in the emergence of Britain's skiffle and rock and roll music culture in the late 1950s, and several major stars including Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard were first discovered performing there.