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Crescent Street ((フランス語:rue Crescent)) is a southbound street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Running perpendicular to Saint Catherine Street, Crescent Street descends from Sherbrooke Street south to René Lévesque Boulevard. Crescent Street is a popular attraction for both tourists and locals alike. North of De Maisonneuve Boulevard, one can find many luxury boutiques and art galleries in a Victorian architectural setting. To the south of de Maisonneuve the concentration of nightclubs, bars and restaurants makes Crescent Street one Montreal's most well-known nightlife strips. ==History== The street which opened around 1860, was originally in the form of a crescent, and was located just north of Dorchester Boulevard. The first bar on Crescent Street opened in 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Winston Churchill Pub )〕 Prior to that year, the street was home mainly to professional offices. The first bar was the ''Sir Winston Churchill Pub'',〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History )〕 a pub partly owned by Johnny Vago a Hungarian immigrant who once participated in the Cuban Revolution. Vago's discotheque, originally known as the ''Don Juan'', was first located on nearby Stanley Street. It relocated as a basement pub ''(sans the dance floor)'' on Crescent after the Stanley street building's basement had to be re-engineered, as parts of the Don Juan's dance floor had begun to fall into the Montreal Metro A few months later, the basement of the adjoining Crescent street building was opened up as the "''Boiler Room''", a somewhat noisier pub, replete with large "quart" (22 oz.) bottles of beer, cheaper meals, a dance floor, and with its jukebox, catering more to the local students and bohemian crowd, leaving the original Winston Churchill as a quieter pub for the older crowd. The two bars were served by a common kitchen. A few years later (c1975), the Boiler Room was closed and redone by Vago as an extension to the Winston Churchill, but keeping the Boiler Room's dance floor. From there, still a few years later, the Winston Churchill expanded upstairs to the first and then the 2nd floors of the building, and eventually became a very large restaurant and bar complex, occupying the whole building. Vago eventually ended up owning many bars on the block, although has since sold his businesses. Given the success of the first establishment, other restaurants and bars would settle in the mid-1970s. Crescent Street merchants formed the Crescent Street Merchants Association in 1998 to promote the street's businesses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Crescent Street Merchants Association )〕 Beginning in the early 2000s, the Crescent Street Merchants Association have organized activities related to the city's sports and entertainment events. The most popular event is the ''Grand Prix Festival'', which takes place each year at the time of the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix in June. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crescent Street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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