August 19, 2026
Tag: Sammys Bowerey Follies
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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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January 23, 2020 7 Comments
A postcard from a century ago provokes a story of two unrelated people in towns thousands of miles apart who led lives of much different value.