Image of the damage done to The Sidetrack after a smoke bomb was thrown through the window.
- Title
- Image of the damage done to The Sidetrack after a smoke bomb was thrown through the window.
- Description
- Image of an incident at Raleigh’s first coffeehouse, The Sidetrack, located at 130 South West Street. On March 6, 1965, a smoke bomb was thrown through the café’s plate‑glass front window at approximately 7:30 p.m. The device landed near an employee and detonated, filling the interior with thick, sulphureous smoke. The event underscored the social tensions surrounding the Beat‑influenced venue during its brief period of operation.
- Coverage
- Raleigh-North Carolina
- Date
- March 6, 1965
- Publisher
- Olde Raleigh - NC Facebook PageSee all items with this value
- https://www.facebook.com/olderaleigh/photos/raleighs-first-coffee-house-the-sidetrack-located-at-130-south-west-street-is-se/787148613416107/See all items with this value
- Source
- News & Observer Negative Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, NO.65.3.57
- https://appx.archives.ncdcr.gov/findingaids/PHC_NEWSOBSERVER_News_and_Obser_.html
- Subject
- beatnik-Raleigh-North Carolina-counterculture-coffee house-beat generation-hippie-folk music-art-smoke bomb
- Original Format
- photograph
- Item sets
- 1960s Counterculture NC
- Site pages
- Still Groovin’
- Media
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