O’Connell’s Pub first opened in 1962, in an area known to St. Louisans as Gaslight Square. Gaslight Square was a bohemian, artistic area, attracting many of St. Louis’s most prominent personalities, some of which not only frequented, but also lived in the area. Some of Gaslight Square’s residents were Ernie Trova, an American sculptor known for “The Falling Man”; Joe Pollack, noted food critic; Bill Woo, former editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch; and Leonard Slatkin, who has moved on but was the conductor that brought international recognition to the St. Louis Symphony orchestra. Gaslight Square was also known nationally as an entertainment district, attracting up and coming stars such as Barbara Streisand,