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unusual facts about Hungry i


The Lost Masters 1969–1972

Two years before the release of Once Upon a Time in 1969, the Kingston Trio disbanded in 1967 following a two week farewell engagement at San Francisco's Hungry i, the nightclub at which they had started their rise to prominence a decade earlier.


Enrico Banducci

Banducci operated the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, where he launched the careers of Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, Jonathan Winters, and Barbra Streisand, and featured Woody Allen and Dick Cavett before they were well-known, as well as countless folk singers.


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Enrico Banducci

In 1988, after he lost Enrico's to one of its several closures over the years, he became a hot dog vendor in Richmond, Virginia, at the "hungry i hot dog stand," located on very expensive property in the city's most upscale restaurant district that he'd purchased for his son years earlier; he moved back to San Francisco in the late 1990s.