Dining-Drinking
February, 1961
Basin Street East (137 East 48th), one of New York's top Jazz and Joke rooms, is run by Ralph Watkins, who won his impresario's spurs at the old Basin Street and at the New York Embers. Watkins is a firm believer in swinging entertainment and he picks up where the old Paramount Theatre extravaganzas left off. BSE's shows major in music, but there's often a top comic as an added attraction – Mort Sahl has used its podium to deliver his unique brand of social and political funditry; Don Rickles, i...
