newyorkthegoldenage:The Sagamore Cafeteria, St. Marks Place & Third Avenue, 1955. Jack Kerou
newyorkthegoldenage:The Sagamore Cafeteria, St. Marks Place & Third Avenue, 1955. Jack Kerouac called it “the respectable bums’ cafeteria.” Ted Berrigan wrote: The Sagamore was a big place always filled with bums snoozing over a cold cup of coffee. When you entered the place, you went through a turnstile and took a ticket, which had various monetary values printed along its edges. Then, as you went down the cafeteria line, each counter man punched your new total cost.Nobody bothered anybody, so it was a good place to sit if you wanted to talk for hours, which we usually did. Good, that is, if you could ignore so much human misery around you.Photo: Robert Frank via the National Gallery of Art -- source link
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