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Mar 30, 1998 · Malachy McCourt on Gold Smuggling, Bar Running and Raising Hell. Though Malachy McCourt is famous for being an actor, a memoirist, a storyteller and a gadfly, what he was known for in 1950s and 1960s New York was for being one the city's great bar owners. Malachy ran one of the first singles' bars, and interracial bar in the Village that was ...
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Aug 11, 2017 · This 85-year-old writer invented New York’s first singles bar. By. Barbara Hoffman. Published Aug. 11, 2017, 7:40 p.m. ET. Malachy McCourt Christian Johnston. You wouldn’t guess it from the ...
The building opened in 1963 and was officially known as St Malachy’s Hall. It was the brainchild of a local priest who also helped design the buildings famous dome roof.
May 13, 2020 · Before the candy-striped restaurant was a big-box affair, it revolutionized American social life. The Upper East Side's singles bar scene of the late-'60s was fairly revolutionary. Welcome to the first installment of Behind Bars, a look back at the great drinking scenes of yesteryear. Today, Aaron Goldfarb visits Manhattan in the late-1960s to ...
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Aug 23, 2016 · London’s nightlife is reactionary, revolutionary, and diverse. At the forefront of each generation’s most innovative music and fashion, London clubs have marked the cultural force of Britain’s colourful and continuously evolving youth scene. The club has historically provided safe, inclusive spaces for otherwise ostracised groups and subcultures in British society. Though recent figures ...
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Mar 24, 2017 · From the hoity toity Gentlemen’s clubs in Pall Mall to the more colourful hidden establishments of Soho, this 1960s British short documentary delves into the ‘secret life of London’. Slightly outdated in its delivery (note the oh so hilarious sexist quip at 2m 55s), Look at Life was a series produced for screenings in cinemas before the main feature.
