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3 unusual facts about Lucius Beebe


Café society

Lucius Beebe, noted American author, journalist, gourmand, and railroad enthusiast is generally credited with creating the term "café society," which he chronicled in his weekly column, This New York, for the New York Herald Tribune during the 1920s and 1930s.

New York and New England Railroad

It caught the romantic imagination of New Englanders and even after it was long gone, Lucius Beebe, a Bostonian and noted railroad writer, felt compelled to memorialize it.

Private railroad car

Lucius Beebe and his life partner Charles Clegg owned two private railroad cars, the Gold Coast and the Virginia City.



see also

The Lucius Beebe EP

The Lucius Beebe EP is a 5-song live mini-album by Trey Anastasio available free to customers who pre-ordered the album The Horseshoe Curve from Anastasio's website (www.trey.com).