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The Village Gate was a stop on the 'Greenwich Village Walking Tour', in part because Bob Dylan wrote "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" in September 1962 in a basement apartment occupied by Chip Monck, the Village Gate lighting engineer and future compere and lighting designer of the Woodstock Festival.
Bar gates, especially manually operated ones, are often counterweighted to allow easier manual control. [7] Bar gates are frequently paired end to end or closely offset to block traffic in both directions. Some bar gates also have a second arm which hangs 30 to 40 cm below the upper arm when lowered to increase approach visibility.
Temple Bar in 2012, with the Temple Bar Memorial in the centre. Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster.In the Middle Ages, London expanded city jurisdiction beyond its walls to gates, called 'bars', which were erected across thoroughfares.
The West End Bar, also known for a time as the "West End Gate", was located on Broadway near 114th Street in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City.From its establishment in 1911, the bar served as a common gathering place for Columbia University students, faculty and administration (its slogan was "Where Columbia Had Its First Beer").
The room above the gate itself was probably added shortly after 1400 and the town steward books mention a banquet held there in 1434. [12] It was originally used as the city's guildhall, until the 1770s. [13] It was at this point that the city began to grow to the north of the gate. [14]
The Gate Bar, which is located in the basement of the Gate Cinema, was used as a location in the television comedy Absolutely Fabulous (Series 4 Episode 1: "Parralox"; aired 31 August 2001). The loft at 18 Powis Terrace was used as the cast residence for the American reality TV show, The Real World: London, which aired in 1995. [5]
Yett hanging in the main entrance of Blackness Castle, Scotland, showing attached bolts and pierced construction.Wrought in 1693. [1]A yett (from the Old English and Scots language word for "gate") [2] is a gate or grille of latticed wrought iron bars used for defensive purposes in castles and tower houses. [3]
Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. [2] [3] Since opening in 2000, it has received over twenty million visitors. [4] [5] The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. [6]