Marketplace - Nov. 15, 2005
Former Avant Garde owner Barker dies in Santa Fe
Jim Barker, a former co-owner of the Avant Garde coffeehouse on Prospect Avenue in the 1960s, died Nov. 5 in New Mexico, after reportedly falling ill in October.
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Milwaukee Buzz - March 1, 2005
Avant Garde inducted many into local counterculture
The Avant Garde Coffeehouse, upstairs in the French Moorish building at 2111 N. Prospect Ave. shone bright for six years, providing a home for musicians, poets and artists. After six years, it rocked a little too hard for some neighbors, who helped shutter it in '68.
Tags: Avant Garde, Reitman, beatnik, hippie, Goff, Strohmeier, counterculture, poetry, folk, Velvip Whip, Baroques, Dylan, Bob Watt, Kaleidoscope, Bugle American