![]() ![]() “Our faith believes that we pass into a spiritual world, we are not really dead. The phone wasn’t working, so she called out to a neighbor, who hurried over and stayed with Karen until the paramedics arrived. ![]() I felt his face and it was ice cold,” she said. “I felt his hands and they were ice cold. Soon she went back to the bedroom to hang around with her husband, billing and cooing as they liked to do. I think I’ll go back to bed,’” Karen said. “We had breakfast, and he said, ‘I’m tired. Then two days later, at the couple’s home in Glendora, Bob slipped away. 17 the Hares, both 80, talked about how they would probably live into their 90s. This poster touting The Insomniac was among five such by Earl Newman, who has for decades designed posters for the Monterey Jazz Festival. The place was finally closed when city officials used imminent domain to turn it into a parking lot, and Hare moved on to operate the Colonial Inn in Orange County and become a bartender, a counselor and chaplain at Pacific Lodge Boys’ Home in Woodland Hills, and a minister of the Swedenborgian church where he met his wife of 36 years, Karen. ![]() In time it grew to sell books and records, and exhibited artworks in a gallery space. The coffeehouse menu was from a stencil design by an artist named Tweakie, who went on to design the “Alice in Wonderland” teacup ride at Disneyland. for flocks of beats and folkies, poets, musicians and visual artists.įrank Holmes, who created the cover art and booklet illustrations for The Beach Boys album “Smile,” produced work at The Insomniac. His establishment across the street from the Lighthouse Café served as a creative salon with 50-cent coffee, “the cup that cheers, but not inebriates,” in the words of poet William Cowper that Hare endorsed. The Insomniac is captured in blazing glory, in a vintage photo by founder Bob Hare.īob Hare made his mark from 1958 to 1963 as owner of Hermosa’s beat-generation Insomniac coffeehouse, where Allen Ginsburg read “Howl,” Sonny Terry wailed the blues and Linda Ronstadt sang folk. ![]()
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