The Fillmore New York will once again be known as the Irving Plaza.
The Fillmore New York will soon be a thing of the past. The New York Times reports today that the club renamed the Fillmore in 2007 will once again be known as the Irving Plaza, its original name.
No tears were shed. “Changing the name of Irving Plaza to the Fillmore is as silly as changing the name of Carnegie Hall,” a former owner told The Times.
Adding the Fillmore name was homage to rock impresario Bill Graham and the original Fillmore Auditorium at Fillmore and Geary. Graham operated a club in New York he called the Fillmore East from 1968 to 1971. Theaters in Philadelphia and Detroit also got the Fillmore name in recent years, but it was quickly dropped in Philadelphia, The Times reports.
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