Bobby Edwards (seen here in a self-portrait from 1917) gave his own history of the “Greenwich Village Epic” in that quintessential Village journal, The Quill, in the November 1917 issue: “Down in dear old Greenwich Village,” or, as the Bard sings, “Way Down South in Greenwich Village,” originated in Polly’s about four years ago. Lucy […]
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Bobby Edwards on the “Epic”
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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New York City in Little Blue Books
October 26th, 2011 · 4 Comments
The “Little Blue Books” were published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, of Girard, Kansas, from about 1919 to 1947. They were small, cheaply made, and sold for a nickel or dime. The covers were originally blue, but other colors were pressed into service if the card stock was cheaper. By the time the company crumbled, they had […]
Bohemian Archaeology
September 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Step inside. Some friends who, like me, frequent that bane of productivity, Facebook, alerted me to a piece recently published in the New York Times, about the short-lived Greenwich Village Bookshop and its very special door. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas has created a wonderful website for this relic, so that […]
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The Greenwich Village Epic
March 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on The Greenwich Village Epic
“The Greenwich Village Epic,” aka “Way Down South in Greenwich Village,” or “Down in Dear Old Greenwich Village” is often quoted in books on the Village. It’s usually credited to a famous Village character of the ’20s, Bobby Edwards, “the Troubadour of Greenwich Village.” (I’ve been assembling material on him, by the way; I hope to post it here […]
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