"'He crafted a new style for the nightclub where bohemia met elegance,' said Rosenstein, noting that Banducci 'was the first to have that brick wall behind the stage, which every club now has.
"He also started satirical political comedy, which was virtually unknown before Mort Sahl. And, finally, he started the revolution in folk music, which went around the country and around the world.'"
The Los Angeles Times publishes Dennis McLellan's obit of Enrico Banducci, the longtime owner of San Francisco's hungry i.
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I worked at Enrico's in the 1990s and have written my own appreciation of the place and the man here:
http://travelswest.blogspot.com/2007/10/tales-of-city.html
Enjoy,
M2
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