189 Bleecker St. The legendary San Remo café. My Dad took me there for lunch when I was a young boy, and I really enjoyed being there with him. So the memory of San Remo remains special to me. For several decades, beginning in the late 1920s, the San Remo (today Carpos Cafe), an Italian restaurant at the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets, was a writers hangout frequented by famous bohemian hangout of Miles Davis, Tennessee Williams, James Agee, Jackson Pollock, W.H. Auden, Frank OHara, James Baldwin, Village character Maxwell Bodenheim, photographer Weegee, William Styron, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Dylan Thomas, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. John Clellon Holmes wrote about the San Remo in his 1952 novel, Go, one of the first published works of the beat generation. Gore Vidal once picked up Jack Kerouac here. Lost popularity because the bartenders beat up the customers once too often. (Frommer’s and other sources) Thanks to Joanne Milazzo for sharing her expertise about San Remo, and all of Greenwich Village.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:04:35 +0000
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