This photo is of Irving Kaplan, who together with Paul Tobin ran the Manhattan www.dubrows.blogspot.com Dubrow's Cafeteria. until it closed in 1985. It was a family-owned businss, started in the 1950's by Kaplan's father-in-law. There was also a Dubrow's Cafeteria on King's Highway in Brooklyn, and one on the Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
They seem to represent a different day and age, when people were encouraged to go out, sit around and drink coffee, and schmooze for hours and hours, without every buying much. It was an extension of people's living rooms.
The Manhattan Dubrow's was also located...
Warning: this is gruesome, so feel free to scroll no further. Once again, it's not citynoise--more like sprawlnoise. I walked about half a mile along a highway about 60 miles outside of the city, and this is some of what...