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In another story, the lower-case "i" was meant to represent "intellectual". "I was going to call it the Hungry
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In 1950, I was acting and designing sets for an amateur theatrical group. One of the men said he wanted to start a small club where actors could go after rehearsals and have coffee, pastry, a beer, et cetera, and sit around and talk—unwind from the work. He asked if I would design the interior, and
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Banducci can still recall Sahl's first tentative performances at the original hungry i, a tiny cellar space in the
Sentinel Building at Columbus and Kearny, now owned by Coppola. He'd bought it from Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, the North Beach boho who'd opened the bar with a partner in '49 and named it
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also think of a name. I came up with hungry i—which referred to all the various hungers of the first person singular. The other man changed his name and personality as the club developed, and became Big Daddy Eric Nord of the
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Banducci for a single night at his nightclub, insisting that she would soon be a huge star. Banducci agreed to sign the singer, who had never performed professionally but was soon starring in
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The comedy and folk music scene wilted in the mid-1960s. On 12 October 1967 Banducci closed the club at its
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