User:0mtwb9gd5wx/Old Spaghetti Factory (San Francisco)


 * The Old Spaghetti Factory (1969, Portland, Oregon)

Cocoanut Grove

 * The Cocoanut Grove, Ambassador Hotel

Old Spaghetti Factory Cafe & Excelsior Coffee House
Old Spaghetti Factory, occupied a former industrial structure at 478 Green St., between Grant and Kearny, in San Francisco.
 * Berkeley Barb, Volume 3, issue 18(64), 11/4/1966 "THE OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY GREEN ST. NEAR GRANT AVE. Liberation Nightly! Open Wed. thru Sat"
 * Aloha Ann, Aloha! - 16Salmon
 * "Frederick Walter Kuh owned the Savoy Tivoli on Grant, the Old Spaghetti Factory on Green Street and (if I remember correctly) everything between."
 * Published in San Francisco Chronicle from Feb. 26 to Mar. 3, 2013.

Employees

 * Sasha Lekach worked at the Old Spaghetti Factory in North Beach in 1956
 * in the 50s Lillian Altschuler Faverman Loran sang regularly at the Old Spaghetti Factory
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/LEAH-GARCHIK-2466595.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alan-Palmer-3008034.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/70-year-old-mezzo-knows-the-trill-of-it-all-3094443.php

Flamenco

 * David Serva, AKA David Jones, son of Victor Jones, the retired UC Berkeley political science department chairman.
 * Ernesto Hernandez Obituary, San Francisco Chronicle
 * Published in San Francisco Chronicle from May 2 to May 5, 2013.
 * "The renowned Flamenco dancer and singer in San Francisco for over 50 years, died from complications of a heart attack Tuesday, April 23, 2013. He was 77 years old. Mr. Hernandez was born on March 9, 1936 in San Francisco. He moved to North Beach in 1952 and with his longtime partner artist Richard Whalen founded the Los Flamencos de la Bodega troupe which performed weekly at the Old Spaghetti Factory at 478 Green Street for over 25 years. The longest running flamenco show in San Francisco history, Los Flamencos de la Bodega became legendary because of the variety of artists nurtured and featured by Mr. Hernandez, who continued performing until at least age 70.  Known for his unique festero style of dancing and congenial personality, he taught many of the following generations of flamenco dancers enriching our cultural scene. Flamenco and its artists were his life.  Mr. Hernandez also performed in many of the Bay Area's original flamenco clubs including Casa Madrid and Rincon Flamenco. He was a long-time member of Theater Flamenco, directed by Miguel Santos.  Mr. Hernandez will be cremated with a memorial celebration of his life held at a later date."


 * (Re)Locating Flamenco: A Northern California Case Study (Los Flamencos de la Bodega at Old Spaghetti Factory)
 * Wetterhahn, Kristin Old Spaghetti Factory San Francisco 1958-1984; Homanaje a Los Flamencos de la Bodega 1985. (Poster, offset lithograph)
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Flamenco-at-the-Crossroads-3293471.php

San Francisco Landmark

 * San Francisco Landmark #127: Old Spaghetti Factory
 * "located in a North Beach building which had been a pasta factory until 1955"


 * #sfitalianheritage
 * "The Old Spaghetti Factory on 478 Green Street Between Stockton and Grant is #sflandmark no. 127. Built in 1908, the pasta factory was converted to a cafe, cabaret, and restaurant in 1955 by Frederick Walter Kuh...Among the people who performed here were The Kingston Trio, Arlo Guthrie, Robin Williams, Donald Pippin and his Pocket Opera, and flamenco dancer Cruz Luna."


 * Inside the Old Spaghetti Factory
 * Spaghetti Factory closes with auction - UPI Archives - UPI.com
 * The Old Spaghetti Factory Café & Excelsior Coffee House Menu obverse Menu reverse
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/THE-ART-OF-BEAT-3018635.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Joanna-Droeger-S-F-restaurateur-invented-Mud-2635639.php

Frederick Walter Kuh

 * Arthur Hanna, a professional cabinetmaker who had a shop on Grant Ave. He moved to Telegraph Hill in 1937 and recalls his business and others in the neighborhood ; Audrey Tomaselli; Interview date: Mar. 23, 1999; transcript date, Apr. 8, 1999; via: San Francisco Public Library;
 * "Freddie Kuh" "Old Spaghetti Factory"
 * 1956: Frederick Walter Kuh opened the Old Spaghetti Factory at 478 Green St. in North Beach. He sold it in 1984. (SFC,11/12/97, p.A22)
 * CURRIE, George Donald OBITUARY
 * OBITUARY -- Frederick Walter Kuh - SFGate
 * Nov 12, 1997 - "A memorial gathering will be held today for Frederick Walter Kuh, a colorful entrepreneur and bon vivant who for years ran North Beach's famed landmark restaurant -- the Old Spaghetti Factory Cafe & Excelsior Coffee House."


 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Kennedy-s-Good-Job-3002595.php
 * Frederick Walter Kuh, Deceased, 5/19/1927 - 11/7/1997
 * FREDERICK WALTER KUH - Chicago Tribune
 * Dec 7, 1997 - "Frederick Walter Kuh, 70, a restaurateur who owned a landmark spot"


 * Striking Contemporary Villa - YouTube
 * "... Bohemian bon vivant with an eye for elegance, Frederick Walter Kuh. ..."


 * https://books.google.com/books?id=gvFyunCAQbMC&pg=PT126&lpg=PT126&dq=Freddie+Kuh+Old+Spaghetti+Factory&hl=en
 * https://books.google.com/books?id=E7m8DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=Freddie+Kuh+Old+Spaghetti+Factory&hl=en
 * https://warholstars.org/ralph-pomeroy.html
 * Remembering Ralph Pomeroy (1926-99)

Lou Harrison

 * https://books.google.com/books?id=E7m8DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=overcooked+Spaghetti+Factory&hl=en

Fritz Maytag, Anchor Steam Beer

 * Anchor Brewing Company The Oxford Companion to Beer
 * "recent Stanford graduate Fritz Maytag was a fan of their Steam Beer, which he enjoyed at his favorite North Beach restaurant, the Old Spaghetti Factory. See maytag, fritz. When Fred Kuh, the restaurant’s owner, told the young heir to the Maytag washing machine empire of the brewery’s plight, Maytag paid a visit to the brewery and ended up buying a majority interest in it."


 * Steam beer The Oxford Companion to Beer (kräusen)
 * San Francisco OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS Legacy Business Registry Staff Report ANCHOR BREWING COMPANY
 * Jun 24, 2019 - "Anchor Brewing Company is associated with the craft of beer brewing. ... California's pioneering Anchor Brewing Co. has played an integral role ... fortune, bought control of the struggling brewery for what he described at the time ... the Old Spaghetti Factory, a campily decorated bar that served as an early..."


 * "and the Old Spaghetti Factory (Fred Kuh's North Beach establishment, not the chain now bearing the name) saved us."
 * Anchor Steam Brewery – SF’s Historical Beer brewtours - March 27, 2012
 * "Anchor Brewing has a storied San Francisco history. The original brewery was begun by Gottlieb Brekel in 1871 in an old beer and billiards hall on Pacific Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood. Bought by Ernst F. Baruth and his son-in-law Otto Schinkel, Jr in 1896 and renamed Anchor, it survived earthquakes, fires, deaths of founders and Prohibition."


 * Anchor Brewing at 120: How a San Francisco favorite survived Prohibition, bland beer era By Alyssa Pereira, SFGATE Updated 10:20 am PDT, Wednesday, June 29, 2016
 * "Luckily, Ernst F. Baruth and his son-in-law, Otto Schinkel, Jr., the German brewers who purchased the original brewing equipment from Gottlieb Brekle in San Francisco, brought with them a bit of knowledge about how to brew beer in such conditions. They named the company Anchor — no one really knows why — and opened up their doors in 1896.  "[The brewers used] old world methods that were used in the wintertime in Germany to cool the wort and ferment the beer," Anchor Brewing's Brewmaster Emeritus Mark Carpenter tells SFGATE. "We all know how cool San Francisco is in the summertime, so you could brew year-round here without refrigeration.""


 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Dead-reptiles-make-the-best-holiday-gifts-2669628.php
 * Roberts, James A sip of something seasonal Sep 5, 2013. Anchorage Press.
 * "I'm one of Anchor Brewing Company's biggest fans. I've been at it a while too, having discovered the iconic San Francisco beer and brewery back in 1972. I was just a sophomore in high school back then and somewhat of a loner. I used to wander the streets of San Francisco with a 35-mm camera taking pictures of whatever interested me. It was on one of those forays into the city that I discovered the Old Spaghetti Factory at 478 Green Street in the North Beach district. My mother's maiden name was Stringari and her mother and father were immigrants from Italy. I guess I have some Italian in me and I was instantly in love with the place. What I loved as much or more than the excellent Red Manhattan Clam Sauce Spaghetti and garlic bread was the fact that no one seemed to care that I was just a teenager, and I was able to drink pint after pint of beer despite being underage. It was here that I discovered Anchor Steam Beer and Anchor Porter."

Spaghetti Jam

 * 'Groove Tube' by John L. Wasserman ("Groove Tube" show at the Savoy Tivoli)
 * "Spaghetti Jam" "Old Spaghetti Factory"|"Savoy Tivoli" "North Beach"
 * Spaghetti Jam, an improv offshoot of the Old Spaghetti Factory
 * Robin Williams did ‘Save the Old Spaghetti Factory!’ benefit in the 1980s
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Robin-Williams-heart-never-strayed-far-from-San-5682602.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Friends-fellow-comedians-react-to-Williams-death-5682399.php


 * Itzkoff, Dave. Robin - 2018 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
 * "Robin (Williams) turned up at the Savoy Tivoli and the Old Spaghetti Factory, a pair of interconnected North Beach cabarets that had been beatnik magnets in the 1950s and now offered their space to acts like the improv troupe Spaghetti Jam."


 * Fotis, M. Long Form Improvisation and American Comedy: The Harold - 2014 - ‎Performing Arts
 * "In 1976, Michael Bossier and John Elk, two former members of Improvisation Inc., formed Spaghetti Jam, performing short-form improv and Harolds until 1983 in ..."


 * Harold (improvisation)
 * https://www.facebook.com/SpaghettiJamImprov/
 * Robin Williams, Jim Crenna, Lorenzo Matawaran, Michael Bossier, John Elk, Debi Durst, Marc Hershon, and others...


 * https://patch.com/california/novato/calendar/event/1473634800/26410/improv-spaghetti-jam-s-40th-anniversary-reunion-show-featuring-the-harold
 * https://throckmortontheatre.org/event/spaghetti-jams-40th-anniversary-reunion-show-featuring-the-harold/
 * https://www.theateronline.com/actshow.xzc?PK=26545
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Jim-Cranna-leaves-em-laughing-as-improv-teaching-2650022.php

Bernice Bing

 * Bernice Bing
 * "To support herself as a student, Bernice Bing also maintained a studio in North Beach above the Old Spaghetti Factory, a popular artist hangout."


 * "Roland Prijoles mentioned that when he was at the San Francisco Art Institute he would often be served by Bernice Bing, working at the Old Spaghetti Factory as ..."
 * "Bernice Bing was a respected figure in the San Francisco arts ... The Old Spaghetti Factory below her North Beach studio was a known hub for ..." Nov 21, 2019
 * "Through the course of study, and through The Old Spaghetti Factory which sat below her studio, she (Bernice Bing) became immersed in the Beat movement and San Francisco art scene."

poetry readings

 * editor shows how to live cheaply in S.F.
 * Proprietor of Manic D Press, and editor of The Underground Guide to San Francisco, Jennifer Joseph, and her college housemate stayed free at her college housemate's radical lesbian aunt's apartment in North Beach and started going to poetry readings at the Old Spaghetti Factory and read aloud her work, and for 13 years went to the weekly readings at the Paradise Lounge.
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Manic-D-Press-changes-the-world-3193246.php

Kaffe Fassett

 * Kaffe Fassett
 * North Beach History: Why Al's Attire Has A Mural From The Old Spaghetti Factory
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/LEAH-GARCHIK-2466595.php
 * The Old Spaghetti Factory (2000) IMDb
 * Leah Garchik May 11, 2009 Updated: Feb. 8, 2012 9:06 p.m.
 * "That mural of ye olde beatnik North Beach that was painted for the Old Spaghetti Factory by Kaffe Fassett in 1964, has been moved by owners Mal and Sandra Sharpe to the Cafe Divine at the corner of Stockton and Union. The work was at Enrico's, then the Beat Museum, then Enrico's again and now at the cafe. The street photographer Millie (Mildred Gardiner, formally, but everyone knows her as Millie), who is one of those pictured in the mural, has taken to hanging out at the cafe where her image is hanging. The owners are calling the space where she sits - which happens to be right under the painting - Millie's Corner."


 * Mildred Fishman Gardiner 1923-02-23
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Unknown-name-keeps-Millie-from-being-helped-3172233.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-once-missing-Millie-back-in-North-Beach-3250528.php


 * https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alan-Palmer-3008034.php
 * "In the spring of 2001, he (William Farley) co-directed The Old Spaghetti Factory, a documentary film about the Old Spaghetti Factory, the last bohemian nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach."
 * https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/HOT-DATES-NORTH-BAY-2936872.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Film-Arts-Festival-Spotlights-City-s-Independent-2731156.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/LEAH-GARCHIK-S-PERSONALS-3316620.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/LEAH-GARCHIK-S-PERSONALS-3327161.php

Donald Pippin, Pocket Opera

 * https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/He-s-Got-Opera-in-His-Pocket-Donald-Pippin-s-2854369.php
 * Donald Pippin, Artistic Director Emeritus and founder of Pocket Opera
 * "Audiences have followed him loyally from his start at the ‘hungry i’ and 'Opus One' in North Beach, through nearly two decades of presenting a weekly chamber music series at the Old Spaghetti Factory, to his present-day fame as the genius behind one of San Francisco’s most popular operatic institutions."


 * https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pocket-Opera-adds-Mollicone-one-acts-2598290.php
 * https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/PROFILE-DONALD-PIPPIN-Piano-man-makes-opera-2848215.php

The Committee

 * The Committee
 * The Committee: A Secret History of American Comedy A documentary now in production, courtesy of The San Francisco Improv Festival
 * "There was a workshop on Saturdays at The Committee that Robin and I attended."

Marc Hershon

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22Hershon%2C+Marc%22
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=%22Marc+Hershon%22
 * Marc Hershon IMDb

Femprov

 * Femprov appears, Sunday nights, June 1980, to January 1981 at The Old Spaghetti Factory
 * (Femprov photos and listings were published in the SF Chron-Exam Sunday Date Book (The Pink Section))


 * Femprov
 * Femprov
 * https://sites.google.com/site/femprovforever/
 * Femprov Improv Comedy - YouTube
 * http://www.jeannene.com/femprovforever.html
 * http://jeannene.net/clippings.html
 * https://twitter.com/hashtag/femprov
 * https://worldwidewomen.co/organizations/768/femprov-fest
 * http://femprov.blogspot.com/
 * http://femprovsf.blogspot.com/
 * Femprov, San Francisco, CA - The Improv Network
 * https://www.femprovisorfest.com/
 * https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Terry+Sand/4381
 * Terry Sand began performing at the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco in 1978 with the improv group Papaya Juice
 * Carol Roberts is a former member of San Francisco’s Femprov Comedy Troupe
 * Berkeley Barb. June 19 - July 2, 1980. Page 13.
 * "Femprov. The only all-female improvisational comedy troupe appears at the Spaghetti Factory, 478 Green St., S.F. Every Sun. in June."


 * https://m.bpt.me/event/4076027
 * https://patch.com/california/millvalley/ev--holy-city-zoo
 * "Papaya Juice" "Holy City Zoo"