White Horse Tavern (Manhattan)
The White Horse Tavern , located at the intersection of Hudson Street and 11th Street in Greenwich Village , was an artist hangout in Manhattan ( New York City ) in the 1950s and 1960s .
history
The White Horse Tavern was built in 1880 and has served as a playground for the literary community in New York since the 1950s. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas became aware of this hideaway for dockers at that time. There is a plaque above the counter and several photos on the walls remember Thomas. The visitors to the restaurant also included writers such as James Baldwin , Norman Mailer , Anaïs Nin and James Laughlin , the founder of New Directions Verlag. The bar was a meeting place for authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac or poets like John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara . Other well-known regulars in the 1950s and 1960s were musicians like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem , who performed there, or Bob Dylan .
In addition to Chumley’s , the White Horse Tavern is one of the few artist eateries from this period that has at least physically survived the gentrification of Greenwich Village. The bar is one of the ten oldest in New York.
literature
- Bill Morgan: White Horse Tavern. in: Beat Generation in New York. A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City. City Lights Books, San Francisco 1997, ISBN 0-8728-6325-5 , pp. 64/65.
Web links
- The White Horse Tavern - 567 Hudson Street on daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.de (pictures and history, English)
- A dead Poet and a beer at the White Horse Tavern on 1000thingsnyc.com
- Tom Roberge: Poet of the Week: Dylan Thomas. on ndbooks.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Poetry Landmark: The White Horse Tavern, New York City at poets.org, accessed August 26, 2014.
- ↑ Bob Dylan's New York - No direction home on articles.chicagotribune.com, accessed August 26, 2014.
- ↑ Bars & Taverns on rightherenyc.com, accessed on August 26, 2014.
- ↑ 10 Oldest Bars in NYC at traveltips.usatoday.com, accessed August 26, 2014.
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 8.7 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 21.4" W.