[AGL] Beckman and the East Village Other

[susan gilbert]

hello michael, please allow me a beckman memory, or rather a johnny  
oakes one, my very first time in nyc, with johnny, we stayed with  
beckman in his east village apartment, with his wife debbie, i'm  
pretty sure that's where my first lsd trip occured, plus it's where  
we first heard "rubber soul", one tripping  night, there was a  
crashing and tinkling of breaking glass, and debbie says, "they're  
always breaking into that apartment downstairs",  i was so not into  
big city life. i have one other story involving bob simmons.
susi

On Feb 11, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> On 2/11/2012 8:07 PM, TeleBob wrote:

>> http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/bob-simmons-on- 

>> one-of-the-first/

>

>

> Bob,

>

> Great story, great times!

>

> My roommate had a mindblowing walk across Central Park with Beckman

> & Joe Elitz one time. They picked her up after her shift at the  

> Figaro coffee

> house around 2 in the a.m.. they took the subway to 59th street  

> later in the

> a.m. around 6 and started walking north across the park diagonally  

> on the

> way to West 96th street where she was subletting. they were walking  

> her

> home. They plied her with substances which induced euphoria and  made

> her feel a great contrast to the glum people on the subway on their  

> way to work.

>

> i never met Beckman, although i went looking for him 1 summer in

> Bolinas CA but didnt find him because he had already died of a heart

> attack i was told.

>

> i felt i knew him in a way, though, because he had sublet a little

> toy house off Whitis on a side street to Fred Seabolt. Beckman

> had decorated the house with found architectural items like

> fluted iron Ionic columns - set up on the porch or maybe they

> were on the balcony - the toy house had 2 storeys. - long since

> torn down, alas.

>

> Fred Seabolt who was off somewhere - in Japan maybe -

> lent it to a subscriber to AGL who was a friend of mine -

> and the rest was herstory.

>

> i can say no more.

>

> mike

>

> On 2/11/2012 8:07 PM, TeleBob wrote:

>> http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/bob-simmons-on- 

>> one-of-the-first/

>

>