Gabe's Oasis

History

Gabe's Oasis is the name used for the upstairs music room at the Washington Street bar that is now Gabe's. Little Village writes that by the mid-1980s, when Doug Roberson was booking, the main upstairs room was advertised as Gabe's Oasis and had shifted from blues-rock toward punk and college rock. Enoch Smoky was the first band in that big upstairs room in the Gabe & Walker's years. The name is one of several on the same building, along with the Pub, Fox and Sam's, Gabe & Walker's, the Picador, and Gabe's. (Little Village, July 31, 2019)