Back in 1957 he had found a shallow basement on MacDougal Street in an 1883 landmark building and saw its potential. That owner was a man named John Mitchell. Some material we recommend you check out for more information on Greenwich Village:ģ60 Sound: The Columbia Records Story by Sean WilentzĪround Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village by Luther S.The stairs that led down to the Gaslight (© Hannah Mattix) Greenwich Village (Photo by Charles Payne/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Cafe Wha? today Cafe Wha?, Minetta Tavern and the rest of MacDougal Street (aka ‘the fun zone’) The location of the Gaslight Cafe UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 19: Patrons at the gaslight, 116 McDougal St. Some images of Greenwich Village today which recall its days from the 1960s - and even earlier (photos by Greg Young): Robert Otter/New York Times Caffe Reggio has been an anchor of MacDougal Street since 1927, an Italian owned business that transitioned into a center for the beatnik scene. The Fantasticks original cast featured Rita Gardner, Jerry Orbach and Kenneth Nelson Jean Shepherd, performing at the Limelight Gallery. Saturday, April 13 from 12:00-3:00pm in Garibaldi Plazaįull calendar at /GVHD50weekend Inside the Gas Light Cafe, in a still from the film Greenwich Village Story directed by Jack O’Connell Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Celebration and Open House Weekend! We greatly appreciate our listeners and readers and thank you for joining us on this journey so far. Check them out and consider being a sponsor.Īnd join us for the next episode of the Bowery Boys Movie Club, an exclusive podcast provided to our supporters on Patreon. If you’d like to help out, there are six different pledge levels (New Amsterdam, Five Points, Gilded Age, Jazz Age, Empire State and Greater New York). Please visit our page on Patreon and watch a short video of us recording the show and talking about our expansion plans. We are now a member of Patreon, a patronage platform where you can support your favorite content creators. We’re also looking to improve the show in other ways and expand in other ways as well - through publishing, social media, live events and other forms of media. We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every other week. The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. You can also listen to the show on Overcast, Google Music and Stitcher streaming radio. To download this episode and subscribe to our show for free, visit iTunes or other podcasting services. Listen Now: Greenwich Village 1960s Podcast ![]() ![]() *snap* *snap*īut we’re also talking preservation with Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, to learn how the Greenwich Village Historic District came to be. There’s gonna be mandolins! And chess players. This episode will present a little walk through Greenwich Village in the early ’60s, giving you the flavor of the Village during the era - and an ample sampling of its sights and sounds. ![]() In just a few short years, the neighborhood’s community of artists and creators had helped to define American culture. Nobody was saying that about the Village in the 1960s. In the 1950s, people often defined Greenwich Village as a literal village with a small-town atmosphere. The Village is the stuff of legends: a hotbed of musicians, artists, performers, intellectuals, activists. This April we’re marking the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District designation from 1969 - preserving one of the most important and historic neighborhoods in New York - and to mark the occasion we are celebrating the revolutionary scene (and the revolutionary moment) that gave birth to it - the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. This is the story of Greenwich Village as a character - an eccentric character maybe, but one that changed American life - and how the folky, activist spirit it fostered in arts, culture and the protest movement came back in the end to help itself.
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