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café espresso (former)
from bob dylan, joan baez posted in music by pete_nice
The Café Espresso was a hub of folk music and community gathering for the arts colony in the early 60s. Folk artists like Joan Baez, Ramblin Jack Elliot, and Bob Dylan would perform here when they traveled up from NYC.
Bob Dylan wrote the bulk of Another Side of Bob Dylan in the White Room, an upstairs room that overlooked Tinker Street in the building.
Today, the building is home to the Center for Photography at Woodstock.
view full location details...kensal green cemetery
from freddie mercury, queen posted in music by crabapple
Lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury, was cremated at Kensal Green Cemetery after his death from AIDS-related bronchial pneumonia on Nov. 24, 1991.
The placement of his ashes has remained a mystery, but a plaque was found in the cemetery in early 2013, causing speculation that they were scattered on location.
view full location details...michael werner gallery
from captain beefheart, don van vliet posted in music by crabapple
The Michael Werner Gallery in New York has exhibited paintings and published books of Don Van Vliet's (Captain Beefheart) artwork since 1991.
view full location details...ambassador east hotel
from travels with charley, john steinbeck posted in literature by nevereatshreddedwheat
I think I am well and favorably known at the Ambassador East, but this need not apply when I arrive in wrinkled hunting clothes, unshaven and lightly crusted with the dirt of travel and bleary-eyed from driving most of the night.
– Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
The Ambassador East was sold in 2010, renovated and reopened as the Public Chicago Hotel.
christ’s college (former)
from led zeppelin, john paul jones posted in music by crabapple
Young John Baldwin (later John Paul Jones) studied music at this boarding school. By the time he was fourteen, Baldwin was choirmaster and organist at a local church. He purchased his first bass guitar that year, a Dallas Tuxedo, partly inspired to take up the instrument after listening to the bass part on the Phil Upchurch Combo's "You Can't Sit Down."
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