Coffee Gallery

Unfinished History

Bob Kaufman reads from his first book at The Coffee Gallery in 1959.

Famous photographer Imogen Cunningham seated on the right in black hat.

Photo: C.R. Snyder

Coffee Gallery, 1959.

Photo: Phil Palmer

Lost and Found Saloon in 1999 where the Coffee Gallery was 40 years earlier.

Photo: Brett Reierson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading poetry at The Coffee Gallery on Grant Avenue, Dec. 28, 1959.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library

Poetry readings scheduled in September, 1973.

Side two of same flyer

Flyer: courtesy Nina Serrano