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“Max’s Kansas City,” Andy Warhol famously opined, “was the exact place where pop art and pop life came together in New York in the ’60s.” Indeed, the restaurant and nightclub was a veritable magnet for creative types almost from the moment it opened in 1965, and quickly became a favorite haunt of the Factory kids and the glam-rock milieu in the early ’70s. As Patti Smith describes the place upon her first visit in Just Kids, “Sandy had experienced Max’s at the time when it was the social hub of the subterranean universe, when Andy Warhol passively reigned over the round table with his charismatic ermine queen, Edie Sedgwick. The ladies-in-waiting were beautiful, and the circulating knights were the likes of Ondine, Donald Lyons, Rauschenberg, Dalí, Billy Name, Lichtenstein, Gerard Malanga, and John Chamberlain. In recent memory the round table had seated such royalty as Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, Nico, Tim Buckley, Janis Joplin, Viva, and the Velvet Underground. It was as darkly glamorous as one could wish for.” Indeed.
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