Closing Night At The Cedar Street Tavern

View of the crowded interior of the Cedar Street Tavern (24 University Place), on its closing night, New York, New York, March 30, 1963. Among those visible are American poets Jack Micheline (1929 - 1998) (born Harold Silver) (left, smiling towards camera), Frank O'Hara (1926 - 1966) (center, looking towards Micheline), and Barbara Guest (1920 - 2006) (looking at camera, in light colored jacket, and American sculptor Abram Schlemowitz (right fore, with glass in hand). The bar, which had originally been located on Cedar Street at the turn of the century, reopened a year later several blocks away. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/MUUS Collection via Getty Images)