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Thread #9646   Message #63378
Posted By: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au
16-Mar-99 - 05:54 AM
Thread Name: Memories of NY in the 60's folk/blues scene
Subject: RE: Memories of NY in the 60's folk/blues scene
This is off the point; but since Art and some of you were performers at the time, you might be able to answer this. I tried a thread on it last year with no luck.

What was the coffee shop in Philadelphia for folk/blues during the 60s. I remember it was on one of those small streets like Sansom and on the other side of the street was "Little Johnny's"--a bar run by the guy who used to say "Call for Phillip Morris" dressed up like a bellhop. They were the only place that had people like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and I think it was there that I saw Big Joe Williams for the first and only time live.

Thanks,

Murray