At the time, Mr. Ted, much was taken for granted. Dzve Van Ronk ran a hootenanny every Monday night at the Gaslight Cafe, and when he wasn't singing, he was upstairs in the Kettle Of Fish drinking. The sidewalks were swarming with people who would later "make it," but everyone was broke, and the favorite culinary delicacy was chinese food at a little place in China Town where you could get a full meal for $.99, and all the tea you wanted to drink, if you didn't mind going in the kitchen to get it yourself in one of those half inch thick battered restaurant glasses. But for me, I just soaked it up... Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Dave, Tom Paxton, and the occasional surprises like Arlo Guthrie at about 15, Jose Feliciano, Buffy St. Marie, Kim Kweskin, Eric Andersen, even Johnny Cash one drunken night, with Dylan sitting on the stage behind him, plucking on his guitar and looking like he was going to fall asleep.

Truth is, Ted, there are things happening in all of our lives right now that we don't give a second thought about. Give it another thirty years and people will be saying, boy I wish I had been there.
It was good, though.

Jerry