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Crescent Street is a southbound street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Running perpendicular to Saint Catherine Street, Crescent Street descends from Sherbrooke Street south to René Lévesque Boulevard.Crescent Street is a popular attraction for both tourists and locals alike. North of De Maisonneuve Boulevard, one can find many luxury boutiques and art galleries in a Victorian architectural setting. To the south of de Maisonneuve the concentration of nightclubs, bars and restaurants makes Crescent Street one Montreal's most well-known nightlife strips.HistoryThe street which opened around 1860, was originally in the form of a crescent, and was located just north of Dorchester Boulevard.The first bar on Crescent Street opened in 1967. Prior to that year, the street was home mainly to professional offices. The first bar was the Sir Winston Churchill Pub, a pub partly owned by Johnny Vago a Hungarian immigrant who once participated in the Cuban Revolution. Vago's discotheque, originally known as the Don Juan, was first located on nearby Stanley Street. It relocated as a basement pub (sans the dance floor) on Crescent after the Stanley street building's basement had to be re-engineered, as parts of the Don Juan's dance floor had begun to fall into the Montreal Metro tunnel then being dug right beside it.