Caffe Nuvo/80s Marin cafe culture

pgwerner · Status: Offline

RE: Caffe Nuvo/80s Marin cafe culture

pgwerner · Status: Offline

googuse wrote:

Howdy!

I run the Caffe Nuvo MySpace page - there's also a Nuvo page on Facebook, which also has Drake and Redwood alumni pages.

Come join up!

I'm already a member of the MySpace group, though I didn't know about the Facebook one (haven't been on Facebook before).

I went to Tam (briefly), not Drake or Redwood, BTW. I wasn't the only person from south Marin to hang at the Nuvo, Lansdale Station, etc the Sausalito Cafe Trieste and Mill Valley Book Depot really had nothing comparable to that scene, really.

-- Edited by pgwerner at 06:29, 2008-06-20

pgwerner · Status: Offline

john carroll wrote:

Nuvo was groundbreaking. For many it was the first opportunity to taste high quality coffee in a world of canned pre- ground offerings.

The first opportunity to try a lot of high-quality things, not all of them licit. ;)

-- Edited by pgwerner at 06:23, 2008-06-20

googuse · Status: Offline

Howdy!

I run the Caffe Nuvo MySpace page - there's also a Nuvo page on Facebook, which also has Drake and Redwood alumni pages.

Come join up!

john carroll · Status: Offline

Nuvo was groundbreaking. For many it was the first opportunity to taste high quality coffee in a world of canned pre- ground offerings. At night it was packed sometimes with a line out the door. the upstairs was quiet, the downstairs loud with occasional live music. It was teenager- friendly and for many of us, you could go hang out without having to drive. For Ross Valley teens it was the default for when there was "nothing to do."

My best memory of it was when a bunch of Redwood drama students climbed up onto the roof above the deck and started performing selections from Shakespeare. The owners seemed to think that was just fine.

pgwerner · Status: Offline

San Anselmo's late great Caffe Nuvo. Also, Lansdale Station, the Fairfax used bookstore/cafe (forgot the name), San Rafael's Copa.

Lots of fond memories of this scene. Anybody else here remember it?

I was away from Marin during the entire 1990s, though I remember stopping by a few times in the mid-90s and finding that the atmosphere at the Nuvo had changed considerably it was very quiet and the "youth hangout" aspect seemed to have disappeared. I wandered through the area again in 1999 and found the Nuvo was gone for good. Anybody know when it closed?

The Caffe Nuvo location is now Debbie Does Dessert. I had brunch there a few years ago, but the way its been remodeled and the overall atmosphere couldn't be more different.

There's a Caffe Nuvo MySpace page, BTW.

Lansdale also closed, and wasn't replaced by anything I'm not sure if its a private home or what's there now. The other two spots are now stores or restaurants, too.