Alas, all I recall from my wayward childhood are East Coast hoots. I didn't make my way to the Left Coast until the age when the very use of the word "hootenanny" brought smirks at best and cat calls at worst. And, it's true you had to pay to get in, at least in New York. But the usually price of admission was 50 cents or a dollar, and for that there was a better than even chance you would hear one or more of the following: Len Chandler, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Happy Traum, Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, David Cohen, Odetta, even Pete Seeger.