St. Louis, Missouri — Scott Joplin House
Tuesday: Our last stop before picking Hazel up from the cleaners was the Scott Joplin House.
(Actually a ladies vest)
This was the first house on our trip that wasn’t opulent, which was refreshing. The coolest part was easily the player piano. Our docent gave us a taste of Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag–
Our docent was all about Scott Joplin and very excited to play. It was great. He told us we were too late to receive the tour, but then proceeded to gush about the house and Joplin, basically giving us the tour.
The ground floor has a few exhibits and player pianos, plus a gift shop. You have to go upstairs to see Joplin’s apartment.
Joplin lived in the apartment between 1900 and 1903. Several people lived here after Joplin, so little of the furniture is original. In this case, however, I don’t think that the original artifacts are as nearly as important as the music and the space.
Topics Discussed — Malts from Crown Candy Kitchen, How Great It Is When You Order a Malt or a Milkshake And They Give You the Silver Mixer Thing
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Amber Suitt
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Lain Shakespeare
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“How Great It Is When You Order a Malt or a Milkshake And They Give You the Silver Mixer Thing”
Hear, hear!
Lain, I am glad that you got to see this Museum. When the Amos family reunion was held in St. Louis several years ago they neglected to put this on the tour . I am a member of the Amos Family and Amos Drug Store was a long time institution in the African-American (Negro) community in Atlanta1920′s to 1970′s with a cherry coke and hot dog with chile to die for at the corner of Hunter and Ashby now Martin Luther King And Lowery Blvd. Thank you for your tour of the the ragtime man’s house.