Sammy's Bowery Follies
267 Bowery | Lower East Side | built 1910
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- 1934
Sammy's Bowery Follies opens at 267 Bowery
The Gay Nineties-style saloon opens between Houston and Stanton Streets in 1934. It draws old-school derelicts as well as tourists, politicians, and actors, with former vaudeville performers singing and dancing on sawdust-sprinkled floors. A 1944 Life magazine article calls it "an alcoholic haven."
Source: Ephemeral New York
- 1969
Sammy Fuchs, the self-styled 'mayor of the Bowery,' dies
Owner Sammy Fuchs is known as the "mayor of the Bowery." He sets up a dental clinic for poor children and a "bum of the month" club that gives some of his most downtrodden customers food, clothes, and help sobering up. Fuchs dies in 1969, and the bar at 267 Bowery closes in 1970, after 36 years.
Source: Ephemeral New York
Further reading
- The cat who lived in a Bowery dive barEphemeral New York
- Sammy’s Bowery Follies: “an alcoholic haven”Ephemeral New York
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