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When Jerry, I and Ewardo lived on Powers around the corner, we were one-time walking home on Mission Street on an evening and there was a store front for rent. Edwardo said we should rent it and make an auto parts store or coffee house out of it. And a few months later it was the Cafe Commons but not by us. I would hang out there every morning for seven years. It was my coffee house experience.
My coffee house hang-out came about because I wanted to use it as a labor center. I was using the Advertiser to find jobs. It got old. I was going to try to get jobs out of the coffee house. Hang an ad up on the bulletin board which I never did. Actually it was more than successful. I got the Stanford Job out of there, and seven years of work from Ray and Dave.
I had never done the coffee house scene except as a tourist in North Beach. I Had coffee all over like in Woolworth's at Fifth and Market once, Safeway market which had coffee kiosks in those days, but hadn't done the European style coffee house as a regular.
We only lasted on Powers Avenue I called street about a year before the house was sold and we were evicted. I moved back up to Winfield with she Sonoma and my son which was back to the pottery shop. So it was probably in this period I was to daily - trek down the hill to the Cafe Commons for a cup of, and my coffee was the same everyday, a cappuccino - something I could dawdle over with generally two cigarettes, smoking seven and eight a day in those times.
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