LARRY BAUMHOR

  Nanny and Larry The Bear & Passover Dinner by Larry Baumhor Dedicated To Michael Bennett      “Fire 2 chicken peppers, 4 sausage peppers, 46 beefs, 8 fries, and 12 mash, fuckin now! Hands-on 78, 90, 32, 59. Thank you, Chef!” The Bear!    “Here’s another piece of gefilte fish,” Nanny, (Betty Bennett), yelled! Nanny was a crazy Jew who wore a brassiere as a blouse, with a Viceroy cigarette dangling from her lips while serving dinner; a few ashes fell onto our plates. “You’re not eating,” she yelled, always screaming. “You’re not watching the soup,” yelled Nanny to Zayda, (Herman Bennett). “You don’t know anything,” screamed Zayda.       Zayda chained smoked Viceroy cigarettes and drank schnapps out of a shot glass, “L’chayim,” he would yell. And down went another schnapps and another, screaming and arguing with Nanny over nothing. Passover dinner!        The Bear and Passover Dinner were two dysfunc...

THE ELECTRIC FACTORY IN PHILADELPHIA by Larry Baumhor (All photos shot at the Electric Factory exhibit at Drexel University, by Larry Baumhor, unless otherwise noted) Click on photos to Enlarge   The Electric Factory in Philadelphia was a facility for concerts as well as promoting musicians in other venues. Roger Barone, by Larry Baumhor    Entrepreneurs Herbert Spivak and his two brothers Jerry and Allen began their concerts on February 2, 1968, at 22nd and Arch St., at a converted tire warehouse. Larry Magid joined the Spivak brothers as manager and co-owner. On this date, the Chambers Brothers were the featured band. At capacity, the Electric Factory had two thousand and seven hundred fans.    The original Electric Factory on Arch St. hosted concerts until 1970 and was razed in 1973. Magid and Spivak created a new Electric Factory in a converted building from the General Electric Switchgear Plant in 1995 at 7th and Willow Street in Philadelphia. PA. The bu...