Addition - Paper Moon Scott's

Developers and artists loved the noir quality: the wide streets, the old neon signs, the sense of a place that had been used hard and left behind. It felt like a movie set for a Depression-era road trip. And what’s the most famous Depression-era road trip movie? . 2. The Jasper: The Real Bar In 2017, The Jasper opened at 3117 W. Leigh Street. It was an instant classic. The owners (also behind The Roosevelt and Laura Lee’s) designed it as a "twilight bar" — dark, intimate, with amber lighting, tufted leather booths, and a long marble bar. The cocktail menu is full of pre-Prohibition classics.

No owner ever tried to correct it too hard—a little mystery is good for business. So the phantom bar persisted. If you were to hear a Richmonder tell the story of the Paper Moon, it might go like this: “Back in the late 2010s, before Scott’s Addition had all the cideries and the axe-throwing places, there was this one bar that felt different. It was tucked in an old dairy loading dock on Leigh Street. No sign out front, just a painted crescent moon on the brick. paper moon scott's addition

People said you could go there to hide out, to make a deal, to fall in love, or to break one off. It wasn’t on any map. You just had to know someone who knew the password. And then one day, like a ghost, it was gone. The space became a regular cocktail bar called The Jasper. Nice place. But it’s not the same.” That’s the fiction. The truth is tamer: a clever bar with a moon logo, a classic film, and a neighborhood full of romantic ruin. But the fiction is why people still ask about the “Paper Moon” today. Go to The Jasper (3117 W. Leigh St., Richmond, VA 23230). Order an Old Fashioned. Sit in the back booth. Watch the black-and-white movie playing silently on the little TV above the bar. And when someone asks where you are, smile and say, “Paper Moon.” Developers and artists loved the noir quality: the