[Publius]

They were reading most of the same books when the beatniks started the whole coffeehouse thing back in the late Fifties.

[Camachee]

They were reading most of the same books when the beatniks started the whole coffeehouse thing back in the late Fifties.

Never forget that a beatnick is a man on the bottom looking down....

[AlexW]

"They were reading most of the same books when the beatniks started the whole coffeehouse thing back in the late Fifties."

When I went off to the Univ. of Tennessee, back in 1963, there were no hippies at that time, but a few throwbacks to the beatnik days were some girls dressed in long black dresses, inhabiting the Presbyterian center's student club coffee house. They were reading anything heavy that they could find, along with ban the bomb books.
Needless to say, they were not very attractive ladies.

[Publius6961]

You may not have noticed, this is no longer the fifties.
Nice name, by the way.

[Zionist Conspirator]

They were reading most of the same books when the beatniks started the whole coffeehouse thing back in the late Fifties.

For some reason actual Beatniks have never struck me as being as obnoxious or as dogmatically Leftist as their hippie successors. Or is that just me?