The legendary Fox Theater. 527. Great Northern (314) 534-1111 The Fabulous Fox opened in 1929 as one of the crown jewels of the William Fox Empire. It was designed by C. Howard Crane and built for an unprecedented six million dollar man. the cost at the time when movie tickets were a quarter. Fox’s wife Eve filled the place with paintings, sculptures and furniture collected from travels around the world for the astronomical sum of $700,000. The first thing you see entering the staircase is a large purple royal robe. Fierce rajahs armed with wicked curved scimitars glared from the cells into the hall. The Indian Vishnu meditates on this side of the scene. From the dome in the auditorium hangs a 2,000-pound chandelier, 12 feet in diameter and glittering with 2,264 pieces of gem glass. A giant Wurlitzer organ, one of only five of its kind ever built, sits beneath the main level, ready to rise from the depths in a spectacular blaze of light.
In 1981, the Fox was restored at a cost of well over two million dollars. Thousands of feet of decking have been painstakingly restored. The 4,500 seats were completely re-upholstered and restored. 7,300 rods of carpet were woven into the original elephant pattern, even the 108 foot high ceiling was hollowed out. State-of-the-art sound, lighting, and stage equipment has been installed, making this one of the most unique and certainly the most opulent places to see live music in the St. Louis area, or even the country. The music bands from Broadway plays to nationally ranked rock bands. It is the only place where it is suggested that you take a tour (every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday before 10:30 a.m.) before attending a concert there. At least he will arrive a few minutes early to express himself.
Blueberry Hill 6504 Delmar Blvd. (314) 727-0880. The owner of Hyacinth Hill, Joe Edwards, has built the Delmar Loop entertainment district almost exclusively over the past number of years, and recently expanded into the city east with the building of the Spectacular Theater. Blueberry Hill is probably the only nightclub that has been featured in Archie’s comic books and is a legendary house. rock and roller Chuck Berry, who performs there on a monthly basis. Several vintage jukeboxes will warm the hearts of anyone over thirty, there are two live performance areas downstairs and a room behind the gathering room It has been fenced since the 1950s. You can check out Chuck Berry’s vintage Gibson guitar on display as soon as you walk in and grab a bottle of Rock and Roll Beer, which bears the likeness of a Fonzie-type character who shouts, “I sold my soul to Rock and Roll.”
Venice, Café 1903 Pestalozzi street (314) 772-5994. If you could download this site, Venice Café would be two parts Graceland, two parts amusement park, three parts thrift store, twp parts New Orleans, and one part Grateful Dead concert. The first thing that catches the eye is a psychedelic-painted VW microbus sitting in a parking lot. You’d probably expect a long haired, dyed t-shirt and bell-bottomed jeans. The nest you see is on the patio: an endless mosaic of unevenly shaped tiles and composed of broken pieces of glass. patio door, walls and floors. When you enter, you will feel that you are in a thrift store which is inflated. This is thrift store. Vintage lunch boxes hang from the ceiling as well as four-foot sandwiches made from Styrofoam. It was lit in the form of twelve 1960s candy-colored Rapture lamps. The music feature here is a combination of hard Blue and cool Caribbean and Reggae.
