Village clubs opened in low-rent former saloons and stables converted cheaply.

Evidence

Indeed, that spring, J. R. Goddard soon after reported on twenty-three-year-old Carolyn Hester, THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE BIG NEW VOICE, a beautiful Texan who’d come to New York to study acting and was now making her debut at a new club, a former saloon with a high ceiling and a tiny stage, Gerde’s Folk City, on West Fourth Street, a few blocks east of Washington Square toward the no man’s land separating the Village from the Lower East Side. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 275

Categorization

• SEED: A taxonomy of what cheap spaces a scene needs: former saloons, former stables, basement grottos — the physical substrate of cultural density.