This lovely description of Dubrow's comes from Lisa Kennedy's article in the Village Voice, which you can read here. She is quoting Brooklyn native Bernard Glassman's experience of Dubrow's:
"Truth be told, that first day's search for boxes for shelter and cans for income had the playful exuberance of Carole Lombard tracking down "a forgotten man" for her upper-class scavenger hunt in My Man Godfrey. But Glassman is candid about the romantic origins of the Street Retreat. "I remember explicitly sitting in Dubrow's, a cafeteria in Brooklyn, eating," he says one afternoon. "And at the next table was a bunch of bums - Bowery-type bums - and they were discussing philosophy, and I was amazed. Their discussion made me feel that there was some kind of knowledge on the streets that was more profound than the kind of knowledge I was getting. I can still picture them - it was a long time ago."
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Marcia here again with some excerpts from a journal I was keeping in 1975 about the people I met at the Kings Hwy Dubrows.
February 10, 1975
"I began photographing under the station. At all times of day and from all angles. Beautiful glowy light on things. I worked my way over to Dubrow's mosaic walls and large convex glass windows. Shooting outside and thru windows. Why don't you go inside-it's getting cold..."
"Mike, Morris Glatt, the man in the flannel shirt and Benny the ice cream man who has just returned from Florida. Under the mural with fair maidens in clinging dresses who carry luscious fruits over their heads. Mike's father was a vaudeville tenor on the stage in 1930. "The over-80club..."
Rosalyn (Rozy) the cashier who collected the tickets says "the Highway is declining and a conglomeration of every sort of thing that walks the earth comes thru Dubrow's doors.
No one has mentioned the murals - have you seen pictures of the Dubrows murals?
I need to look into setting up a site to post my cafeteria photos.
Let me know when you get those photos up and I'll post a link to it. I'd love to see them.
I have not heard mention of the murals - and I don't remember them. I'll ask my mom and relatives what they remember about them...
I have a great picture of Benny taken around 1971, Would you like to see it?
Would love to! Is it up somewhere?
I have it on my other hard drive. Can I insert a picture on this board?
Currently this is set up so that only I can post on the blog. But if you have either a Buzznet or a Flickr account (both free) I should be able to download the picture from there, and then repost it to my blog. Or you could email it to me (realsupergirl@gmail.com) and I will upload it to my Buzznet account (where my other Dubrow's pictures live.
I sent you the picture to your email address. Let me know when you get it. Also would like to see other pictures of Brooklyn. Is there a site that you could recommend?
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