A number of unexpected photographs of Bob Dylan in 1964 revolve around the Cafe Espresso, the Paturel family and other friends:
Bob dylan – Cafe Espresso, Tinker Street, Woodstock — 1964Bob dylan – Cafe Espresso, Tinker Street, WoodstockBob Dylan with writer Mason Hoffenberg and singer-songwriter John Sebastian at Café Espresso in Woodstock, New York, 1964. Excerpt: “How’d you meet Dylan?” “My French wife had this cousin named Hugues Aufray, who was a small-time French guitar player. He’d been doing it forever, looking like an Italian pimp, getting nowhere. But he came over to the States for a while and heard Dylan before he got big, bought some blue jeans, went back and translated Dylan’s songs into French and became a big-shot French star. He’s still making it. So the first time Dylan did a London concert, he wanted to see Paris and he looked this guy up. Naturally, they came over to my house, because I was an American who smoked dope. And I didn’t know who Dylan was. That was about the last point in his life when he could still meet people normally. And we had a ball. I liked him a lot. I actually thought he was a hillbilly. We went to Berlin together and picked up this German girl and Dylan asked her ‘What ‘s your name?’ and she said, ‘Vas?’ So later, Dylan says to her ‘You know what time it is, Vas?’ As if somebody Jewish wouldn’t know what vas meant. He was beautiful. And he said if I ever got back to the States, to stay with him in Woodstock. Which I did when my family broke up.” “What was it like in Albert Grossman’s house?” “I thought I was going to have a ball, because Dylan was real famous then, with girls climbing all over him. but instead of fun, it was grim, like a museum. Grossman had this sign in the driveway that said, ‘If you have not telephoned, you are trespassing.’ And Dylan was very uptight.” “Why?” “Because he’s not really into balling groupies. Millions of girls were going berserk to get to him and he was doing things like hiding in the closet whenever the door opened.” “But Dylan got married then. How did that happen?” “Well, while we were living in Grossman’s house, Albert had this wife or concubine or something named Sally. And Sally had a friend living there, a nice Jewish girl being helpful, doing things like picking up Dylan’s notebooks and putting them away. So he married her and they had four kids in the quickest possible time.”Expresso Cafe – Woodstock, NY – summer 1964 (left to right) Unidentified, Sara Lownds (foreground), Candy co-author Mason Hoffenberg, John Sebastian, Dylan, and Victor Maymudes. (photo by Douglas R. Gilbert)(left to right) Mason Hoffenberg, John Sebastian, Bob Dylan and Victor Maymudes, Cafe Espresso, Woodstock, NY(left to right) Mason Hoffenberger, John Sebastian, Bob Dylan at Cafe Espresso, Woodstock, NYBob Dylan – Cafe Espresso, Tinker Street, WoodstockBob Dylan – with a daughter of Paturels – Cafe EspressoBob Dylan – with Triumph Motorcycle. -Behind Cafe Espresso
