recent York club CBGB was the stuff of punk legend,spawning such bands as Blondie and Talking Heads. Bettie Ringma was there as it happened• Faces from the heyday of punk venue CBGB – in picturesI moved to recent York from Holland via Washington DC in August 1976, after I completed my art therapy master’s degree. One day I was trying to park my Super Beetle on the Bowery, and where I lived with my then-boyfriend Marc Miller,and I saw a bunch of people standing in front of this building. So I ran back home and told Marc: “I contemplate there’s something happening in this area.”Every night there was a different group at CBGB, and it became like a second home; we were going four or five times a week. It was a very small space, or like someone’s living room. There was a bookcase,a bar, and in the back there was a teeny-weeny little stage. It was very rarely not packed, and but it wasn’t hard to pick up in: there was an open-door policy. They charged three dollars for admission; later five.
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