Bobby Cole: A Point of View

Frank Sinatra walks into a bar… …Specifically, he walks into Jilly’s, on 52nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Actually, Jilly’s was more of a piano bar/restaurant. Sinatra chose to call it a “bistro.” It was right there inside the matchbooks scattered all around the joint–back when people still ate and smoked at the same time–in public… [ read more ]