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Greenwich Village in the 1960s
Crowds on the streets of Greenwich Village, New York City, 1963.
Greenwich Village
Beginning in the early 20th century and especially since the Beat movement of the early 1950s, Greenwich Village had been a mecca for creative radicals—artists, poets, jazz musicians, and guitar-playing folk and blues singers—from all over the United States. In coffeehouses such as the Cafe Wha? and Gaslight Cafe on McDougal Street and Gerde’s Folk City at 11 West 4th Street, singers including Fred Neil, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon played for a few dollars to small crowds, discovering which songs worked and what to say between them. There was no obvious connection between this scene and the pop charts ...(100 of 228 words)