. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . oncert Hall (1858-61) itbecame notorious and one of the sights of New York,as in that neighborhood was the Tenderloin of theday, with many gambling saloons and worse the fire of July, 1865, which burned out his AnnStreet place, Barnum rebuilt the Melodeon Hall andopened it September 6, 1865, as Barnums New was an occasional visitor here as a boy and rememberseeing Tom Thumb and Minnie Warren as well as someof the giants and the play of The Octoroon in the lectureroo
. The greatest street in the world : the story of Broadway, old and new, from the Bowling Green to Albany . oncert Hall (1858-61) itbecame notorious and one of the sights of New York,as in that neighborhood was the Tenderloin of theday, with many gambling saloons and worse the fire of July, 1865, which burned out his AnnStreet place, Barnum rebuilt the Melodeon Hall andopened it September 6, 1865, as Barnums New was an occasional visitor here as a boy and rememberseeing Tom Thumb and Minnie Warren as well as someof the giants and the play of The Octoroon in the lectureroom. Fire broke out in the part of the building occupiedby Van Amburghs Menagerie on March 3, 1868, andthe place w^as destroyed. It was very cold weather,and the front of the house and the fire ladders were en-cased in ice, while the firemen looked like walking icicles. 212 The Worlds Greatest Street A second Broadway Theatre was opened in August,1837, on the east side of Broadway near Walker Streetin a building formerly known as Euterpean Hall and theApollo Saloon; but the enterprise was soon BROADWAY THEATRE, EAST SIDE OF BROADWAY, BETWEEN PEARL ANDWORTH STREETS, 1S5O Across the street, at Number 412, was the Apollo Ball-Room, a very popular resort for politicians opposed toTammany Hall. In May, 1844, the Congo Minstrels,later called the Negro IMinstrels, appeared at ApolloHall. During the time of Fernando Wood, the building Amusement Places below Union Square 213 became the headquarters of the Apollo Hall, or Wood,democracy. During the vogue of the Apollo Ball-Room, it was theresort of many of the younger set, who here found afreedom of action and dancing which they were deniedin the sedate affairs of society. In fact, patronizingthe Apollo became a mild kind of dissipation among thesociety youths, just as at a later day it was consideredthe proper thing to visit Harry Hills in HoustonStreet. The Old Broadway Theatre was located on the eastside of the street, betwe
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