Doctorow, E. L. The Waterworks. New York: Random House, 1994.
Type:
book
Genre:
novel
Abstract:
This historical novel of 1870s New York City briefly mentions Pfaff's bar. The narrator of the novel refers to "Pfaff's saloon on Broadway" and says that "The raucous good humor there seemed to me callow" (198).
Pfaff's bar is briefly mentioned in this historical novel about 1870s New York City as a place whose "raucous good humor" seems "callow" to the narrator (198).
Charles Pfaff's obituary in the New York Times characterizes him as the proprietor of the famous Bohemian "chop house" at 647 Broadway that flourished between 1860 and 1875 ("In and Ab