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Dylanwalk Part 2 - Dylan at the The Lion's Head This PopSpot is all about the coffee house called The Lion's Head where Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, Terri Thal, Dave Van Ronk, and an unidentified woman ate breakfast (with photographer Jim Marshall who lived nearby) before they embarked together walking through the western part of Greenwich VIllage in an entry I called the Dylanwalk. At the time we posted the Dylanwalk, we had not figured out where these pictures of the group - with a cat - were taken. We thought they were taken after the walk. But when the location turned out to be in the background of the first picture, we now realize, these picures were taken before they went on their walk. That is why Dylan is seen adjusting his scrf in an early picture. He had just walked out of the building. The picture below shows Dylan inside the Lions Head Cafe, where the group was eating. Following this picture we wil show many other picture from that part of the photoshoot. The cafe, now a bar called Bayard's Ale House, is still there and looks about the same. You can go there and eat and drink right where Bob his and hisfriends did next to the old fireplace in the back. All photos of Dylan and his friends are by Jim Marshall unless otherside specified. Some can be purchased at the Jim Marshall website or at galleries listed at the website. Marie Fotini contributed to the research for this PopSpot. 
Dylan lighting a cigarette. 
Dylan lighting a cigarette - colorized. 
Dave Van Ronk is sitting next to Bob, but seems to move and become out of focus. 
Suze is sitting on Bob's other side. Bob works his cigarette. 
Suze and Bob again. Suze looks over something near the floor behind Bob. 
Dylan with Suze - colorized. 
It's a kitten! Suze holds it up as Bob watches. 
The colorized version. It looks like a black-and-white kitten. 
Dylan now holds the kitten. 
Dylan holding thekitten - colorized. 
Bob is enjoying the coffee! 
Bob is enjoying the coffee - colorized. 
The Lion's Head was located at the southwest corner of Charles and Hudson Street in Greenwich Village a few blocks from the Hudson River. It's official name was The Lion's Head, Ltd. This is what the The Lion's Head looked like in 1963 when all these photos of Dylan and friends were taken. The Lion's Head had a white stucco front. The last of the three cars is a 1963 Ford station wagon, which dates this photo as 1963 or later. 
(photo by Fred W. McDarrah) If you look closely in the red square, you can see the flat white stucco front and the same sign above it in this shot taken after the Dylan group left the restaurant. I enlarged the image in the red quare in the next photo, below. 
(Dylan photo by Jim Marshall) I enlarged the little red square area of the last photo so you can better see the white stucco front and the wood sign.
Three years earlier, in 1960, the restaurant had a different front, though same wooden sign, as you can see by this photo taken on October 16, 1960. This photo was taken on October 16, 1960 by well-known Village photographer Fred W. McDarrah, then the photo editor of the Village Voice weekly newspaper. The Lions Head moved elsewhere in the Village and closed in 1996. This space is presently a bar/restaurant called Bayard's Ale House. Its addess is 533 Hudson Street at Charles Street (aka 116 Charles Street at Hudson).. 
(photo by Fred W. McDarrah) Here's a listing about the Lion's Head from a NYC guidebook (Hart's Guide to NYC) published in 1964, a year after Dylan was there. 
This is the building (then Meyers Pharmacy) going way back in time. 
This is Bayard's today. 
You enter through a porch. 
Then you will see a long wall of table cross from the bar. Bob and his breakfast buddies were sitting at the end of this long wall. 
Specifically, they table was right here, near the white fireplace in the back. 
Here's the shot we saw at the beginning again.
From Dylan's point-of-view the restaurant woud look like this. (He's be a litte bit closer to the front) To see this exact spot in Google Street VIews (and be able to spin the camera around), click here: 
So, they finished eating - and they left! Here's the first walk of what I call the Dylanwalk - a series of about 25 pictures of the group walking around the village. I'l put a link to it with the next photo, which I colorized. They are: from left to right: 1) An unidentified woman. Terri Thal, in an interview, said she did not know who she was. She might be a girl friend of the photographer, Jim Marshall, who lived 1/2 block away at 106 Charles Street according to the 1962-64 Manhattan phone book (see below). 2) Dave Van Ronk. 3) Terri Thal (who was married (either then or soon after) to Dave Van Ronk and managed Dylan for a while). 4) Suze Rotol (Bob's then girlfriend. 5) . . . and Bob, adjusting the scarf that he probably put on moments before, while leaving the restaurant whose front door is right behind Dave's head. 
Jim Marshall's address from the 1964 phone book. 106 Charles Street. 
And the last shot- above - colorized. To see an entire webpage of of photos that come after this picture and that make up the "Dylanwalk" which is PopSpot #41, click here. 
This was the end of the entry, but for additional photos that came in later, scrolll below THE END sign for the Addendum Photos section. 
Addendum Photo #1. This photo was taken right in the middle of the "Dylanwalk" but is not on the main proofsheet. This, and another photo below, also not on the proofsheet, would indicate that photographer Jim Marshall had another camera that he was taking additional photos on that day. 
photo by Jim Marshall Addendum Photo #2. Another photo not on the proofsheet but taken in the middle of the "Dylanwalk." It was taken on the corne of Bedford Street and Commerce Street. 
photo by Jim Marshall Addendum Photo (Picture) #3. This Greenwich VIllage map made by Lawrence Lahey in 1960, shows the Lion's Head. 
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