Movie: "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) with Marilyn Monroe - BICKFORD'S is in the background as a large, red neon sign while Marilyn Monroe walks out of a New York City movie theater on summer's night. The scene is approximately in the middle section of the movie, one minute before the famous shot of her skirt blown upwards by air rushing from passing subway trains.
Movie: "The Wrong Man" (1953) film by Alfred Hitchcock, with Henry Fonda - A BICKFORD'S coffee shop in a New York City subway station is the location for Henry Fonda's character to relax after work, with a cup of coffee and newspaper, a common practice of late night and day-time customers. The Bickford's logo is plainly visible on the employee hats and the cup of coffee in front of Henry Fonda. This scene is in the beginning minutes of the film.
Movie: "Dark Passage" (1947) features Humphrey Bogart in a taxi at night and shows the large neon sign of a FOSTER'S restaurant, San Fransisco, West Coast division of Bickford's, Inc. Also featured, a visual of The Cliff House, famous Bickford's San Fransisco restaurant.
TV movie: "The Last Convertible"
TV show: ("Candid Camera" early 1960's episode in a Bickford's restaurant)
Books:
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Audio CD |• Excerpt from page 189 "... Chop Suey on Dolores Street ... dunking pound cake in Bickfords ... chased up Exchange Place by a baying pack of ..."
Illuminated Poems
by Allen Ginsberg, Eric Drooker (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |• Excerpt from page 44 "... of Zoo, who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford's floated out and sat through the stale beer afternoon in ..."
A: A Novel
by Andy Warhol (Paperback )• Excerpt from Back Matter "... Friday afternoon in August 1965. They walk downtown to a coffee shop called Starks for breakfast. Page ... Street in a cab to Bickfords on Eighty-sixth Street. It is now July of 1966. There ..."
POPism: The Warhol Sixties
by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback• Excerpt from page 63 "... mundane or very enigmatic-like if he was ordering from the Bickford's coffee shop downstairs, he'd be completely lucid, but if you asked him ..."
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
by Andy Warhol (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback• Excerpt from page 102 "... the air. Their work is actually what the waitresses in Bickford's do, plus a few additional duties. I don't want to ..."
"High Priest"
by Timothy Francis Leary, Timothy Leary (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |
• Excerpt from Front Matter "... Doors of Perception found its way to the tables of Bickford's Cafeteria Times Square New York & the couches of Reed College ..."
"Lonesome Traveler"
by Jack Kerouac (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback - November 1985 |
• Excerpt from page 107 "... got r S cents and are looking for someone in Bickford's Cafeteria who can lay some smash on you) (lend you some ..."
"Miles"
by Miles Davis (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | | Audio Download (Audible.com)• Excerpt from page 59 "... home to pick up some clothes to wear over to Bickford's at 145th Street and Broadway, to pick up fifty cents ..."
Noncommercial, Institutional, and Contract Foodservice Management
by Mickey Warner (Hardcover )• Excerpt from page 13 "... the Chicago company John P. Hardings. The Waldorf Systems and Bickford's, both with commissaries in New York City, formed new divisions to serve this expanding market. Morrison's cafeteria company in Alabama initiated a new division to serve the ..."
Dimensions of the Hospitality Industry: An Introduction, 3rd Edition
by Paul R. Dittmer (Hardcover )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback |• Excerpt from page 60 "... year, they introduced a new concept in restaurant dining: the cafeteria. Customers selected foods from long ... nation, including Horn & Hardart, Bickford's, and others. Restaurants in Hotels Perhaps the most important restaurants ..."
Amusing reference to a fictional Bickford's restaurant is featured in "Death Knocks." A one act play by Woody Allen, included among 17 plays in the book "Getting Even." This is also referenced by Woody Allen in his movie "Deconstructing Harry"
Love, Sex, Death, and the Meaning of Life: The Films of Woody Allen
by Foster Hirsch (Paperback - July 2001)• Excerpt from page 44 "... will give Nat one more day, waiting it out over coffee at Bickford's. Nat calls his friend Moe Lefkowitz: "Listen, I don't know ..."
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar (Paperback )
Other Editions: Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette (Abridged) | Audio Cassette (Unabridged) | Audio CD (Abridged) | Audio CD (Unabridged) | Hardcover (Large Print) | Audio Download (Audible.com) |• Excerpt from page 145 "... favorites were Cronin's, Chez Dreyfus, and the Newbury Steakhouse. The Hayes-Bickford and the Waldorf, which were both Horn & Hardart-style coffee shops, open most of the night, were also frequent gathering places. ..."
Taxi Driver (Faber Film)
by Paul Schrader (Paperback )• Excerpt from page 70 "... yellow mass and heads downtown.) LATE BREAKFAST Exterior of downtown coffee shop. Travis's cab is parked near a neighbourhood Bickford's. TRAVIS and IRIS are having a late breakfast at a ..."
Paul Schrader: Collected Screenplays Volume 1: Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper
by Paul Schrader (Paperback )
• Excerpt from page 98 "... yellow mass and heads downtown. LATE BREAKFAST Exterior of downtown coffee shop. Travis's cab is parked near a neighborhood Bickford's. Travis and Iri's are having a late breakfast at a ..."
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