Editing Tony Pastor (section)

=== Family ===
Antonio Pastor, father of Tony, was a fruit-seller, barber, and violinist from Spain.<ref>Monod, David. "Art with the Effervescence of Ginger Beer: The Creation of Vaudeville". ''The Soul of Pleasure: Sentiment and Sensation in Nineteenth-Century American Mass Entertainment'', [[Cornell University Press]], 2016, pp. 171–205.</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Historical document| website=Historical Vital Records of NYC | url=https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/4171945 | access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref> His family was reputed by contemporaries to be "of gypsy blood".<ref>Ford, James I. ''Forty-odd Years in the Literary Shop'', E.P. Dutton, 1921, p. 107.</ref> He met his future wife, Cornelia Buckley, who was from [[New Haven, Connecticut]], after he came to New York. They then lived in Manhattan. Their third child, and first son, also named Antonio Pastor, was born in [[Manhattan]] in 1837 at his parents' residence at 400 [[Greenwich Street]], in what is now the financial district of lower Manhattan.<ref name="Fields">{{cite book |first=Armond |last=Fields |title=Tony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XlCFnqopzQ4C&pg=PA4 |year=2007 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3054-3 |pages=4–6}}</ref><ref name="Zellers">{{cite book |first=Parker |last=Zellers |title=Tony Pastor: Dean of the Vaudeville Stage |url=https://archive.org/details/er00park |url-access=registration |publisher=Eastern Michigan University Press |year=1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=William Ellis |last=Horton |title=About Stage Folks |year=1902 |publisher=Free Press Printing |page=[https://archive.org/details/aboutstagefolks00unkngoog/page/n19 9] |url=https://archive.org/details/aboutstagefolks00unkngoog}}</ref> He had a taste for entertaining when he was young, producing his own plays in the basement of his family's home.<ref name=":1">Kattwinkle, Susan. ''Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage''. Greenwood P, 1998.</ref>