July 28, 2026
Tag: New York CIty
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They Were Champion Boxers Once, and Restauranteurs Too
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Jack Dempsey and Sugar Ray Robinson were champion boxers — Dempsey as a heavyweight and Robinson as a middleweight and welterweight. While they fought in different eras of “the sweet science,” their post-fighting paths led them to New York City and the restaurant business.
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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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July 12, 2026 3 Comments
There was no Yukon Jake, except the fictional character who left an Iowa farm for the Yukon and became a mythical rascal. A tattered postcard is all that remains, except a few 16- page chapbooks.