If you're a Dylan-head or just an aficionado of the Greenwich Village music scene from the 1960s, you know of Cafe Wha?, Manny Roth's legendary coffee house where Bob Dylan got his start (that's him at the left of the photograph above, allegedly at his very first Cafe Wha? performance, backing up Karen Dalton and Fred Neil.)
So, it was with some sadness that I read earlier this week that Roth had died at age 94. Piece by piece, person by person, the traces of that era are slipping away and there's almost no movement to preserve them. We trace Dylan's footsteps along MacDougal street in Footprints in New York; I wonder how long it will be until that chapter is out of date.
Do you have recollections of Cafe Wha? or MacDougal Street in the early 1960s? If so, please post a comment.
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