March 18, 2021

Tag: Bowery Postcards

Sammy’s Bowery Follies

Hy Mariampolski

Sammy’s Bowery Follies

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.

For the uninitiated, a “dive bar” is a

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