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Lily Pons
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Lily Pons

Opera singer

1898–1976, born in Draguignan, France

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Neighborhood

Wikipedia ties Lily Pons to the Upper West Side, Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin

On the map at The Ansonia

The Ansonia, Manhattan: Her home as an adult. She gave her pet ocelot to the zoo when it became too dangerous to keep in her apartment here.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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    The Town Hall

    1921

    Opened in 1921 as a lecture hall, it became one of the city’s top music venues. Sergei Rachmaninoff appeared in the 1931–32 season of its Endowment Series and Lily Pons in 1938, and a Louis Armstrong concert here in 1947 led to the formation of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, per Wikipedia.

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Also tied to the Upper West Side