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Cafe Wha
Cafe Wha? is a music club at the corner of MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane (Manhattan), Minetta Lane in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The club is important in the history of Rock music, rock and folk music, having presented numerous musicians and comedians early on in their careers, including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool & the Gang, Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor. The club's motto is "Greenwich Village’s Swingingest Coffee House". History Cafe Wha? was opened in 1959 by Manny Roth, an actor and World War II veteran, at 115 MacDougal Street in New York City. Entered down a steep staircase, the basement space was formerly a horse stable, and Roth laid the marble tile himself. He painted the walls black to make the space seem like a cave. The club was a coffeeshop selling food and drinks, and eventually c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacDougal Street
MacDougal Street is a one-way street in the Greenwich Village and SoHo neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City. The street is bounded on the south by Prince Street and on the north by 8th Street (Manhattan), West 8th Street; its numbering begins in the south. Between Waverly Place and 3rd Street (Manhattan), West 3rd Street it carries the name Washington Square Park, Washington Square West and the numbering scheme changes, running north to south, beginning with #29 Washington Square West at Waverly Place and ending at #37 at West 3rd Street. Traffic on the street runs southbound (downtown). MacDougal Street is named for Alexander McDougall, a merchant and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War military leader. MacDougall is also the namesake of MacDougal Alley, a private cul-de-sac owned jointly by the residents of Washington Square North to its south and West 8th Street to its north, for whom it was created in 1833 for their stables. The Alley runs east off MacDougal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
