Mary’s Cafe, Camberwell, London
The London neighborhood I left 30 years ago is still very much present in my mind, and will have its place, and third places, in The Great Good Place II. I've continued to be a member of the Camberwell Society and found this in a recent issue of the Camberwell Quarterly: Spotlight On: Mary's Cafe The classic British [...]
Golden Gate Inn, Cleveland
From an early age, I grew up and worked in a bar. It was an Italian tavern owned by my grandparents called the Golden Gate Inn, located on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio in the Collinwood neighborhood, a mostly Italian-American area. In my earliest memory of the Golden Gate Inn, I’m four years old. [...]
Sea Dawg Cafe, San Diego
"In the 1970s, the Sea Dawg Cafe on the Ocean Beach pier in San Diego was a place where fishermen and walkers and writers met and, over time, knew each other. As with many great good places, the key to the Sea Dawg was one powerfully social human being. His name was Craig Mueller. He [...]