Those Frisky Friscotheques: The New Barbary Coast

April, 1965

Those Frisky Friscotheques: The New Barbary CoastOnce upon a time, runs the personal legend of every defrocked bohemian, there was my Greenwich Village, my Montmartre or St.-Germaindes-Prés, my Barbary Coast and North Beach in San Francisco. In those days art was liberated, the girls were also, food tasted good, the wine was cheap, and we whiled away the hours between borning and dying with eternal truth, beauty and rolls in the hay. What is your Charles Street today, your Latin Quarter, your We...