Re: Tom's Diner

[Gary L Dare <gld@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu>]

In article <8909262130.AA17184@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Tamar wrote:

>Tom's Diner is located on Broadway and about 112th st in NYC.
>(This is the west, not the east, side.) It's a favorite local greasy
>spoon for Columbia students.  Suzanne Vega attended Barnard so it's
>likely that she, like the rest of us, had her share of egg
>creams and coffee there in the wee hours.

Let me guess: You were at Barnard?  Or Columbia, on the main campus?

Let's not forget that Art Garfunkel (a John Jay Scholar at Columbia
College) spent many evenings at Tom's when his friend from Queens
College, Paul Simon, came up to visit and they'd work on songs and
generally shoot the breeze.  Jack Kerouac spent a lot of chow time at
Tom's before the bar at the (late, lamented) West End opened.

That booth in the middle is now occupied by a future Canadian Senator
from Western Canada... (-;  Training for a nose in the trough...
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