October 27, 2024
Tag: Bowery Postcards
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Sammy’s Bowery Follies
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Sammy’s Bowery Follies was not the first “dive bar” nor did they invent the idea of “slumming” but for a stretch of time through the 1940s to the 1960s, Sammy’s was New York’s best example of both.
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August 22, 2021 5 Comments
Epidemics, pandemics, outbreaks, plagues, or scourges? How many words in English spell h-a-r-d–t-i-m-e-s? For centuries virus and disease have been topics we think about, talk about, and write about. Here are some postcard messages from “regular folk” writing about their “hard times.”