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BICKFORD'S, INC.

1922 - 1982

Founded by

Samuel Longley Bickford (1885 - 1959)

Cafeterias <> Coffee Shops <> Service Restaurants <> Drive-In Restaurants <> Specialty Restaurants <> Industrial Food Services <> Institutional Food Services <> Packaged Ready-To-Serve Foods <> Own Brands <> Private Brands <> Bake Shops

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Books referencing Bickford's, Inc. restaurants, etc.

Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs
by John Tytell
Other Editions: Paperback - June 1986

Out of Print--Limited Availability

• Excerpt from page 85 "... at a variety, of jobs, spot-welder, night porter, dishwasher in Bickford's cafeteria, learning the argot of jazz and Times Square, how to ..."
Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
by William R. Taylor (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 315 "... on in men's rooms, and in theaters. There was a Bickford's [cafeteria] there all night, and a big cafeteria right there on ..."
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis (Radcliffe Biography Series)
by Robert Coles (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |

• Excerpt from Front Matter "... and her father, and while we had our snack-in Hayes Bickford, a cafeteria long gone-he told me some of what he knew. I ..."
Contenders
by Terence Winch (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 6 "... lesson. It wasn't until weeks later that I thought of Bickford's. Bickford's was a chain of all-night cafeterias. There was one in West Farms. When O'Grady's closed at ..."
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
by Sharon Zukin (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 197 "... cheap food served quickly and without ostentation. Far from it: Bickford's and Horn and Hardart's were only replaced by McDonald's and pizza stands. But in contrast to cafeteria habitués, as Isaac Bashevis Singer has often described them, dawdling, ..."
Harvard University: An Architectural Tour (Campus Guide)
by Douglass Shand-Tucci, et al (Paperback - July 2001)

• Excerpt from page 300 "... that compasses such well remembered locales as the Square's Depression-era cafeterias (decor by Edward Hopper)-the all-night Waldorf, Albiani's, and Hayes Bickford's of the 1940s, so full of minor beat poets by ..."
The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley
by Barbara Washburn, et al (Paperback - May 2001)
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 30 "... he invited me to dinner. He took me to Hayes Bickford's in Harvard Square, a less-than- elegant cafeteria. And then he let me go home on the subway! ..."
Greenwich Village: A Primo Guide to Shopping, Eating, and Making Merry in True Bohemia
by Robert Heide, John Gilman (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 47 "... popular chain eateries frequented by Village Bohemia included the Waldorf Cafeteria, Nedick's, Howard Johnson's, and Chock Full 0' Nuts, all located on Sixth Avenue between Washington Place and Eighth Street. Bickford's on Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue was a white-tiled favorite ..."
Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac
by Ellis Amburn (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 93 "... up the word beat from "some midwest carnival or junk cafeteria," Kerouac speculated. "It was a ... could usually be found in Bickford's, nursing a cup of coffee and plotting his next robbery. ..."
Close To Home Unplugged : The Second Close to Home Anthology
by John McPherson (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 125 "... playing the new game to look pretty gross." in the cafeteria was a great way to ... Rogers' Neighborhood' you're watching!" "Dr. Bickford is trying out a new inoculation method he found out ..."
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
by Richard Rhodes (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged)

• Excerpt from page 89 "... out. In the car and later that night in a Bickford restaurant they talked for three hours. Then began Gold's Sisyphean ..."
City of Night
by John Rechy (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 40 "... men-Pete was touchy about one subject: his mas- culinity. In Bickford's one afternoon, a goodlooking masculine youngman walked in, looked at ..."
The Last Time They Met: A Novel
by Anita Shreve (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio Cassette | Paperback (Large Print) | Digital (Microsoft Reader) | Digital (Adobe Reader)

Excerpt from page 291 "... imagine the city as a stage set, with all the shops shuttered, the cafés closed. People ... bustle and the smell of coffee needing to be guessed at. ... stop in at the only place that is open, a Bickford's across from the Park Street subway station. Stragglers and winos ..
A Box of Matches: A Novel
by NICHOLSON BAKER (Hardcover )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Digital (Microsoft Reader) | Digital (Adobe Reader)

• Excerpt from page 66 "... was more or less normal, and I ate at a Bickford's and left a generous tip, but I wanted to go ..."
14 Peck Slip
by Ed Dee (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 123 "... tables don't match. Some silverware says "U.S. Army," some says "Bickford's." But there's no wine steward, no menus, and no patience ..."
Occam's Razor
by Archer Mayor (Mass Market Paperback - October 2000)
Other Editions: Hardcover | Mass Market Paperback | Hardcover (Large Print)

• Excerpt from page 160 "... truck broke down and he had to abandon it near Bickford's. My first question is: Has anyone here ever seen him ..."
Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
by Vincent Lobrutto (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | See all (3)

• Excerpt from page 14 "... Valentine Movie Theater, the Castro Convertible showroom, and Bond's Clothing Shop. All the local bookmakers, with street names like "Joe Jalop," hung out at Bickford's Coffee Shop. The nearby Villa Avenue held an Italian enclave. The ..."
Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars
by Kurt Brown, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Paperback )

• Excerpt from Front Matter "... Manager 124 Two Restaurants 125 The Buckhorn Exchange 1.'-7 At Bickford's 129 The Man from the Restaurant 130 Reading Something in ..."
Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader
by Peter M. Nardi, Beth E. Schneider (Hardcover )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 13 "... Pete was touchy about one subject - his masculinity. In Bickford's one afternoon, a good looking masculine young man walked in, ..."
Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
by Victoria Price
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 51 "... by living on the delicious barley soup at the Waldorf Cafeteria on High Street in New Haven. He later wrote, "I ..."
The Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 6, English in North America (The Cambridge History of the English Language)
by John Algeo (Editor), Richard M. Hogg (Editor) (Hardcover )

• Excerpt from page 1 "... Contact with other languages 198-9). The term cafeteria was adopted in 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, and ..."
Abington (Images of America: Massachusetts)
by Sharon Orcutt Peters (Paperback - August 2002)

• Excerpt from page 21 "... the 1940s or 1950s shows a view down North Avenue. Bickford's restaurant is clearly noticeahle on the right side of the ..."
Lee and Elaine
by Ann Rower (Paperback)

• Excerpt from page 153 "... boys' club, I imagined, talking intensely about art matters, in Bickfords or the Cedar Bar. I'd wondered though, if, even metaphorically, ..."
The Smuggler's Bible
by Joseph McElroy

Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback - July 2003 | Unknown Binding |

• Excerpt from page 57 "... and I've closed Bunny's, had my hash and egg at Bickford's, come back up the street, ditched the Barnard girl, checked ..."
Moon Palace (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Paul Auster (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |

• Excerpt from page 207 "... streets, but there were several forays into low-life bars and coffee shops-Blarney Stones, Bickfords, Chock Full o' Nuts-where I slapped down a fifty-dollar bill ..."
A Good School: A Novel
by Richard Yates (Paperback )
Other Editions: Paperback - September 1979 | Unknown Binding |

• Excerpt from Back Matter "... I was saved," he ex- plained, staring earnestly into his coffee in a Bickford's cafe- teria at one o'clock in the morning. "Why me? ..."
Lonesome Traveler
by Jack Kerouac (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback - November 1985 |

• Excerpt from page 111 "... a bus in the Port Authority Terminal and goes into Bickford's, Chinese girl, red shoes, sits down with coffee, looking for daddy. There's a whole floating population around Times ..."
Empire City
by Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor), David S. Dunbar (Editor) (Hardcover )

• Excerpt from page 755 "... a bus in the Port Authority Terminal and goes into Bickford's, Chinese girl, red shoes, sits down with coffee, looking for daddy. There's a whole floating population around Times ..."
True North: A Memoir
by Jill Ker Conway (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Hardcover (Large Print)

• Excerpt from page 77 "... the Yard, before ending up at the twenty-four-hour eatery, Hayes Bickfords, for scrambled eggs and bacon. One ..."
Ghosts of 42nd Street : A History of America's Most Infamous Block
by Anthony Bianco (Hardcover )

• Excerpt from page 111 "... grind house and a nickel spent on a cup of coffee or a little pot of baked beans with a bacon strip entitled you to a table in Hector's or Bickford's for as long as you might require it? The Automat ..."
Reefer Madness : A History of Marijuana
by Larry "Ratso" Sloman (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 172 "... Huncke lived for a long while around Times Square, around Bickford's which was the great intellectual or drug-meeting center. That's where ..."
Into the Mountains Dark: A WWII Odyssey from Harvard Crimson to Infantry Blue
by Franklin L. Gurley (Paperback - October 2000)

• Excerpt from page 12 "... I should return to normal. After a quick supper at Bickford's cafeteria, I took the MTA to Boston and my job ..."
The Interrogation
by Thomas H. Cook (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) | Hardcover (Large Print) | Digital (Microsoft Reader)

• Excerpt from page 276 "... What do we know for sure? 9.45 Am., Bickford's Restaurant, 1284 De Paul Street Anna Lake stood on the ..."
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
by George Chauncey (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 164 "... in response to the growing number of unmarried clerks and shop workers living in the city. ... several other chains, such as Bickford's, Schrafft's, Longchamps, and Caruso, had joined them in appealing to ...
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac
by David Amram (Hardcover )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 4 "... which often annoyed the 4 A.M. stoned-out cus- tomers at Bickford's greasy spoon, where we would congregate after the Five Spot closed, to eat hamburgers with fried onions and mayonnaise on English muffins, while we drank coffee and planned our conquest of New York. A few months ..."
Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram
by David Amram, Douglas Brinkley (Paperback - January 2001)
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 229 "... o'clock one morning be- fore we ate some waffles at Bickford's, I ran around the block three times. At these sessions ..."
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
by Jackson Lears (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 410 "... and he could also rhapsodize over the counter girl at Bickford's as "Eurydice" in his diary. ... browsings through second- hand book shops may have been at least in part an attempt to ..."
Greenwich Village: A Primo Guide to Shopping, Eating, and Making Merry in True Bohemia
by Robert Heide, John Gilman (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 47 "... on West Tenth Street and Green- wich Avenue, a pastry shop deluxe that made the best ... Washington Place and Eighth Street. Bickford's on Fourteenth Street and Seventh ... in chain restau- rants and coffee shops. Intoxicated but idiosyncratic street derelicts on Sheridan Square who ..."
Night Out: Poems About Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars
by Kurt Brown, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Paperback )

• Excerpt from page 129 "... his marriage. -After that I will drift off again to Bickford's and spend my life in the cracked cups and the ..."
This Place on Third Avenue: The New York Stories of John McNulty
by John McNulty, et al (Paperback - June 2002)
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback

• Excerpt from page 62 "... place to go at night, the way you'd go to Bickford's and have something to eat late at night if you ..."