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At Tony Pastor’s Opera House, one of the more respectable establishments on The Bowery in 1872, the impresario sang of the gulf separating the city’s Upper Ten Thousand and Lower Ten Thousand. But whether blue-blood on Fifth Avenue or down-and-out in Five Points, everyone in New York City could enjoy a good party.
The Patriarchs, twenty-five gentlemen possessing the snootiest of names and the moldiest of money, held their inaugural ball in mid-winter.
