hungry i

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The hungry i was a legendary night club and meeting place for artists of the 1950s and 1960s in the 599 Jackson Street in the North Beach section of San Francisco . It was founded in the 1940s by the German-born hipster poet Eric "Big Daddy" Nord and taken over in 1951 by the impresario Enrico Banducci. The hungry i served numerous well-known musicians and stars from the entertainment sector as a stage and the beginning of the career ladder.

history

The hungry i marked the beginning of the career for numerous stars in the music and show business. In the club were stand-up comedians such as Woody Allen , Lenny Bruce , Dick Cavett , Bill Cosby , Phyllis Diller and Jonathan Winters on, the singer and actress Barbra Streisand gave their debut here and well-known musicians like Herb Alpert , the folk - Group The Kingston Trio , the jazz musicians of the Vince Guaraldi Trio and many others made guest appearances in the establishment. The African AmericanHuman rights activist Maya Angelou started out as a Caribbean singer at the club.

With the decline of the folk movement and the comedy scene and the beginning of hard rock , as well as the hippie and anti-Vietnam war movement from the mid / late 1960s, Banducci closed the club and sold the name to a topless bar in the 546 Broadway in the same borough. In 1981, Enrico Banducci and former Hungry i artists formed a reunion. The one-time performance was documented by the director Thomas A. Cohen in the film Hungry i Reunion .

In March 2007 the story of the hungry i was shown in an exhibition at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library , now the Museum of Performance & Design . In addition to Enrico Banducci and his daughter, artists from the club's heyday took part in the opening of the exhibition, such as Orson Bean , Shelley Berman , Malcolm Boyd , Travis Edmonson , Tom Lehrer , The Kingston Trio, Mort Sahl , Ronnie Schell , Ernie Sheldon and Glenn Yarbrough .

The name

Today's hungry i on the corner of 546 Broadway Street.

The meaning of the club name is unclear, there are different attempts at explanation that contributed to the formation of the legend : According to one story, the "i" should be the abbreviation for "intellectual-intellectual", so "intellectually hungry". Banducci himself is said to have interpreted it as the literary short form for "hungry id ", the English equivalent of "id-ego, super-ego" of the structural model of the psyche according to Freud . Another legend has it that the name of the club was simply not finished when it opened, and the next day all the San Francisco newspapers took over the name. The artist Mark Adams claimed in a 1985 interview that he invented the name and that it simply means "the first person singular with all its various desires."

Today's hungry i on 546 Broadway Street ( 37 ° 47 ′ 52.6 ″  N , 122 ° 24 ′ 22.5 ″  W ) is still a topless bar. The nightspot is one of the oldest strip clubs in San Francisco. The name continues to attract numerous tourists who suspect the legendary club at this address and want to learn more about its history.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Famed Artist Mark Adams Leaves Behind a Rich Tapestry of Color and Glass . Retrieved September 6, 2008.

Coordinates: 37 ° 47 ′ 46.5 "  N , 122 ° 24 ′ 18.5"  W.