A closer connection

 

Tacoma Daily Ledger. 21 Nov 1897.

My previous post on the Gilded Lady mural in the Nomad district of New York prompted me to look back at Agnes Atherton O'Brien's years of performing in New York theatres. Sure enough, there's a closer connection than I expected. The article above shows Agnes performed at Koster & Bial's theatre in late 1897. Correction - While the original theatre was located at 23rd and 6th Avenue, mere blocks away from the mural and right around the corner from the hotel we've been using on recent visits to the city; the theatre where Agnes performed in 1897 was at 34th and 6th Avenue. Agnes and I most definitely walked on the same streets in NYC, 127 years apart.

More on the theatre in the next post.