Yesterday’s Jeopardy! made me wonder how much longer Beatlemania will continue to linger in the public’s collective consciousness. In the Double Jeopardy round, under the category of “In Da Club,” the $1600 answer was, “You went down eighteen stone steps to enter this club, the home of the Beatles, at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool.”
Kudos to yesterday’s winner Tom Devlin for his interesting, but incorrect, guess. “What is the Quarrymen’s Club?” With no glimmer of recognition from the other two contestants, host Ken Jennings explained, “They played a lot of early gigs in the Cavern Club.”
The Cavern was demolished only three years after the Beatles broke up, when I was graduating from high school. Today’s Cavern in Liverpool is, like Fort Ticonderoga and the Star Trek Tour, also in Ticonderoga, a recreation.
https://www.cavernclub.com/history/
Beatles bonus: Walter Cronkite remembers the Beatles.