Word: landesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colorful saloon called the Gaslight. The neighborhood then was a collection of seedy secondhand stores and a community of couldn't-care-less flat dwellers. Following the Mutrux brothers was self-styled "Environmental Engineer" Jimmy Massucci, who opened up another saloon, the Golden Eagle, near by; then Jay Landesman, whose Crystal Palace theater was operating farther downtown, decided to move his establishment into the neighborhood...
Last year this casbah of culture and whoopdedoo earned more than $3,000,000 for its investors, and property values have tripled over the last four years. A Gaslight Square Association has been set up, and Jay Landesman has been voted unofficial mayor of the quarter. Says Landesman grandly: "It means nothing. I'd rather be king...