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The coffeehouse at 147 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village in the 1960s.
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Fred Weintraub
Died on March 5, 2017 at age 88
Mr. Weintraub left home, family and a baby-carriage business to become the Greenwich Village impresario who advanced the careers of dozens of fledgling singers and comedians, like Bob Dylan, Woody Allen and Nina Simone, at his Bitter End coffeehouse.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.