Nice postcard ... but actually the restaurant was known as the "One Fifth Restaurant", not the Shipwreck Restaurant.
In any case, the One Fifth Restaurant is long gone now, but how many knew that we could connect your postcard to a stamp from Austria?
Check this out:
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Slightly north of SoHo, on Eighth Street, a bar/restaurant called One Fifth (at 1 Fifth Avenue) offered a seductive counterpoint to SoHo's industrial chic, having installed the Art Deco fittings of a decommissioned ocean liner, the Cunard Line's RMS Caronia. The owners were Kiki Kogelnik, an Austrian-born Pop artist, and her husband, George Schwartz, a doctor. Later they restored the historic Keen's Chop House in midtown, and opened the NoHo Star, still a lively scene. One Fifth drew a multi-generational audience of artists, journalists, poets and downtown celebrities (1975-ca. 1986); it was also a frequent venue for Larry Rivers's East Thirteenth Street Band.
Kiki Kogelnik died in 1997 but her art was later featured on an Austrian stamp in 2003:
More on Kiki Kogelnik here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Kogelnik
Posted 09/29/2014 3:27 pm
