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Pfaff's was a drinking establishment in Manhattan, New York City, known for its literary and artistic clientele. ==Description== Opened in 1855 by Charles Ignatious Pfaff, the original Pfaff’s was modeled after the German Rathskellers that were popular in Europe at the time. Charles Pfaff's beer cellar was located on Broadway near Bleecker Street (before 1862, Pfaff's address was given as 647 Broadway; after 1865, its location was advertised as 653 Broadway) in Greenwich Village, New York City. To enter the beer cellar—which was actually a vaulted ceiling bar and restaurant—its patrons had to go down a set of stairs. From the mid-1850s to the late 1860s, Pfaff’s was the center of New York’s revolutionary culture. As writer Allan Gurganus has said, "Pfaff’s was the Andy Warhol factory, the Studio 54, the Algonquin Round Table all rolled into one."〔Gordus, Sara Oliver. '' (Walt Whitman’s Watering Hole: Pfaff’s Cellar, NYC )''. The Rumpus.net, July 2, 2010.〕 Habitués included journalist and social critics Henry Clapp, Jr., Walt Whitman, Ada Clare, poet and actress Adah Isaacs Menken, playwright John Brougham, artist Elihu Vedder, actor Edwin Booth, author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and humorist Artemus Ward.〔Events. Upcoming: Original Bohemians in a New York Saloon. 'Rebel Souls'. ''Library of Congress Gazette'', Vol. 26, No. 15. April 27, 2015. p. 2.〕 Whitman called Charlie Pfaff "a generous German restaurateur, silent, stout, jolly," as well as "the best selector of champagne in America."〔(Walt Whitman, America's "First" Bohemian ), Poetrybay, Winter 2003-2004.〕 Whitman also wrote an unfinished poem about Pfaff’s called "The Two Vaults," which included the lines: Writer Fitz James O'Brien also wrote an ode to Pfaff's and to the clientele; an annotated copy of these lyrics titled ''At Pfaff's'' was pasted by Thomas Butler Gunn into his 1860 diary and can be seen at ''The Vault at Pfaff's'' website. Clapp, considered by many the "King of Bohemia", founded ''The Saturday Press'' as New York's answer to the ''Atlantic Monthly''. Started as a literary magazine, ''The Saturday Press'' eventually became a countercultural zine "with a mix of poetry, stories, radical politics, and an enthusiastic spirit of personal freedom and sexual openness. Before it folded in 1868, it published numerous poems by Whitman and a short story by Mark Twain. The Saturday Press championed ''Leaves of Grass,'' a move that many view as a significant factor in the success of the 1860 edition."〔 In 1870, Charles Pfaff moved his business up to midtown. Whitman wrote about Pfaff’s in ''Specimen Days'' after a visit to the restaurateur's newer location many years later: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pfaff's beer cellar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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