If it weren’t for the small round-topped table, I’d say this image captures a police department ‘holding tank’ in 1967 populated primarily by people caught smoking a doob in the alley behind the jazz club. ’Cause… bars on the windows.
The strait-laced couple are attending Open Mic Night at the new coffee house, remodeled from an old jail. The couple are drifting apart; he desperately hangs onto her shoulder, while she sits cross-armed, not wanting to be cozy with him. She wants more out of a relationship, maybe something more “dirty.” Her “come hither” invitation is noticed, not only by the singer, but by his “ole lady” on the other side of Mr. Button-up. Allen Ginsberg, on the end, is taking in all this, sneaking a peek at the parting sea, but also anticipating a good fight.
Looks like an ad agency decided on a mashup approach of Kodak moments and the Maidenform woman… just can’t figure what the dang product is that they’re hawking.
danketaz Premium Member 8 months ago
Ah, those 16th century, Belgian hootenannies.
Walrus Gumbo Premium Member 8 months ago
Jailed protesters from the ‘60’s.
stillfickled Premium Member 8 months ago
What’s the guitar player looking at?
blunebottle 8 months ago
A speakeasy.
Or a Beat coffee house.
Cpeckbourlioux 8 months ago
What’s he looking at?
PraiseofFolly 8 months ago
Robin and Debbie were like them once. Then he traded his sandals for wing-tips and became a CPA. Sometimes they missed the freedom of squalor.
tremaine53 8 months ago
If it weren’t for the small round-topped table, I’d say this image captures a police department ‘holding tank’ in 1967 populated primarily by people caught smoking a doob in the alley behind the jazz club. ’Cause… bars on the windows.
BarBaraPrz 8 months ago
They don’t serve drinks in holding tanks.
Linguist 8 months ago
Reminds me of some of the Greenwich Village coffee houses from the early ’60s. I sang the Bleeker Street Blues more than once, in those days.
Zebrastripes 8 months ago
And the singer could not keep his eyes off the one broad in the front bench…
fritzoid Premium Member 8 months ago
The guy on the bench doesn’t look like Don Draper, but I think I saw this scene in an episode of “Mad Men.”
Linguist 8 months ago
I was born out of time. I was too young to be a Beatnik and too old be become a Hippie.
Stephen Gilberg 8 months ago
I take it he wasn’t even trying to be funny this time.
Glibster Premium Member 8 months ago
Isn’t that The Mamas and the Papas in the front row?
tee929 8 months ago
The cast from "Animal House’ all grown up?
getawaygoober 8 months ago
The strait-laced couple are attending Open Mic Night at the new coffee house, remodeled from an old jail. The couple are drifting apart; he desperately hangs onto her shoulder, while she sits cross-armed, not wanting to be cozy with him. She wants more out of a relationship, maybe something more “dirty.” Her “come hither” invitation is noticed, not only by the singer, but by his “ole lady” on the other side of Mr. Button-up. Allen Ginsberg, on the end, is taking in all this, sneaking a peek at the parting sea, but also anticipating a good fight.
Gnomon Dee Range 8 months ago
Looks like an ad agency decided on a mashup approach of Kodak moments and the Maidenform woman… just can’t figure what the dang product is that they’re hawking.
SwimsWithSharks 8 months ago
The guy in the glasses is smart. He only got arrested to hang out with the bad chicks.