Photograph by George McCue, courtesy of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri–St. For 10 years, Boyle and Olive was the center of Saint Louis entertainment universe. Louis didn’t believe it deserved something so wild and beautiful. It happened for a lot of reasons-changes in American culture, racism, attempts to control it or make a quick buck off it-but ultimately, perhaps it was that St. It was New York and New Orleans all at once, but it wasn’t, because it was ours. Built around the theme of the famed Riverboat and Gaslight era. You would find entertainers starting their careers in the clubs of Gaslight Square. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. In Gaslight, the color line washed away beatnik girls with pixie cuts padded the street in flats, and poets set up typewriters on corners. The district was known for lit gas streetlamps and Victorian architecture. (585) 282-6052 Check Availability 12 Photos 3D Tours and Videos Explore Gaslight Square Apartments from the inside and out. (Trebor Tichenor still gets sad eyes when he talks about the demolition of Tom Turpin’s Rosebud Café he was playing rags in the Square when he heard the news.) Yet this weird tumbling together of past and present head-shocked us into the future. Gaslight Square Apartments 50 Patriots Lndg, Rochester, NY 14626 (3) Available Now 35 2 Beds 9401,040 Managed by National Property Management Associates, Inc. And then they cemented it together with ghosts: There was jazz, but more so, Dixieland and ragtime. They hung multiple chandeliers from one ceiling, installed gingerbread on interior walls, strung up beaded curtains made from billiard balls.
In 1958, the New York City-trained Landesmans opened Crystal Palace, home of offbeat theater and musical revues. The Square was Lady Frankenstein, where spiffy bohemians like the Mutrux brothers dressed up Victorian buildings with frippery scavenged from other, torn-down Victorian buildings. Before long artists, musicians, poets and writers called it their own. This is Gaslight Square, soon after Laclede Gas swapped in gaslights for streetlights, a year after a TIME reporter visited the city and wrote a florid article about a “three-block oasis of nostalgic frivolity,” where “some 50 gaudily atmospheric taverns, cabarets, restaurants, and antique shops are packed together in fine, fin-de-siècle jumble.” It’s a year before the murder of a respectable married lady at her own address, 4254 Gaslight a year before the waterfall of newspaper stories about beatings, rapes, muggings, murders…always occurring at the Square, even when they didn’t.
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