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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Muddy's Chronicles: Memoirs from the Last Great Coffeehouse

Muddy's Chronicles: Memoirs from the Last Great Coffeehouse

Stevens, Bill

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Regional: West

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ISBN10: 193361840X
ISBN13: 9781933618401
Publisher: Centipede Press
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
Philosophical coffeehouses, those hotbeds of liberal ideas, poetry readings, strange cigarettes, and all-night jazz sessions, were a hallmark of the Beat era. Muddy's Java Cafe hosted the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and virtually all of Denver's mayors and Colorado's governors during its illustrious career. As a sometimes-halfway house for runaway teens, Muddy's was also home to jazz musicians who came and jammed after their regular gigs and a place to talk politics or Nietzsche in a convivial, relaxed atmosphere. Muddy's was more than a coffeehouse: it was a Denver institution for nearly twenty years. Bill Stevens has created an uproariously funny, nostalgic, and melancholy look at one of the West's best-known java joints. Places like Muddy's existed in large cities all across the United States, and its stories are universal.

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