Opened as a coffee-house by a likeable Italian called Mike Porco in 1952, this smartly run establishment became a folk club in 1960 and their Monday night hootenanny showcases became the most important on the Greenwich Village scene.]]>
Opened as a coffee-house by a likeable Italian called Mike Porco in 1952, this smartly run establishment became a folk club in 1960 and their Monday night hootenanny showcases became the most important on the Greenwich Village scene.]]>
One of the young Dylan's favourite haunts, The Gaslight was originally a "basket house", where performers were paid the proceeds of a passed around basket. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, a wild-looking Bohemian and legendary pioneer of Greenwich Village]]>
When Dylan first arrived in New York City on Tuesday, January 24,1961, he caught a subway down to Greenwich Village and blew into the Cafe Wha? in a flurry of snowflakes. It was hootenanny night and the place was half-empty.]]>
Dylan wrote A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall in September 1962 in the basement of the Village Gate, in a small apartment occupied by Chip Monck, later to become one of the most sought-after lighting directors in rock music.]]>
fter spending time sleeping on floors and taking whatever hospitality was offered to him by concerned mother substitutes and occasional girlfriends.]]>
In the early '50s, this bar had been the favourite hang-out of artists, and regulars included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Subsequently, the Village daubers were joined by the Village scribblers Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Greg]]>
Formerly the Cafe Society Downtown, above this little theatre lived the Rotolos, Mary, a widow, and her two daughters, Carla and 17-year- old Suze (pronounced "Suzy").]]>
Mid-December,1961, shortly after recording his first album for Columbia, Dylan moved into his first rented apartment, a tiny, scruffy place above Bruno's Spaghetti Shop, and persuaded his girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, to move in with him.]]>
More famous for the other Dylan, Dylan Thomas, who made this pub his second home in the early 1950s, and who drank his way to oblivion at its bar Bob Dylan was a regular here in 1961, often going over after midnight, when Gerde's closed.]]>
Dylan bought this townhouse in late 1969 and moved back to the city for the first time in four or five years, the intervening time having been spent mostly in Woodstock, upstate New York, where he lived quietly with his wife Sara and their young family.]]>
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When Dylan began hanging out in the Village again, in the summer of 1975, he played here with Patti Smith, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Bobby Neuwirth, performing songs such as Abandoned Love, Joey and Isis for the first time.]]>
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