The Sagamore Cafeteria, St. Marks Place & Third Avenue, 1955. Jack Kerouac called it “the respectable bums’ cafeteria.” Ted Berrigan wrote:
The Sagamore was a big place always filled with bums snoozing over a cold cup of coffee. When you entered the place, you went through a turnstile and took a ticket, which had various monetary values printed along its edges. Then, as you went down the cafeteria line, each counter man punched your new total cost.
Nobody bothered anybody, so it was a good place to sit if you wanted to talk for hours, which we usually did. Good, that is, if you could ignore so much human misery around you.
Photo: Robert Frank via the National Gallery of Art
How is Lucille Starr, née Lucille Savoie (1938-2020), singer, first Canadian woman to sell one million records, related to -~-~ Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), author, On the Road?
You get your just dues in Heaven – Heaven’ll Be indifferent to this Indifferent god (Yet, honest indifference were better than can’t) …really When I hear pious Bullshit about Justice & Democracy and I know the hypocrites are lying in their false teeth I’m not indifferent to God I’m indifferent to me-on-earth I cant think of anything More ridiculous than me On earth – Really!
![‘The Moderns’, edited and with an introduction by LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Corinth Books, New Yor](https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5831f8881c6837db53fd442cafb4bc0/tumblr_nyqg59zDvC1tegr1eo1_1280.jpg "‘The Moderns’, edited and with an introduction by LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Corinth Books, New Yor")
