pete seger and woody guthrie, come to the village in the late 1930s and bring with them folk music. there's a long history of the interaction of folk music and the communist party. the communist party originally hated folk music but, then went to embrace later in the 30s. they plant ad seed that would blossom later in the village as well. max gordon starts the village vanguard, still going. oldest nightclub, oldest continuous nightclub in new york city. i was just there with my sister from out of town a couple weeks ago. in 1934, when he starts out max, it is famous jazz will be now. when he started out he couldn't afford music. so he would have village characters like maxwell and joe gould, famous joe gould do a drunken floor show and people would throw money at them. then in the late 1930s, as hitler is devouring europe an entire generation, the cream of european arts and intellectualism and scholarship fleece to america. comes, almost all of them come through new york city. many of them stay in new york city and many of them the ones who stayed in new york city worked their way d