Caffe Lena - Happy Birthday to our dear Lena, the woman who started it all. She would have been 95 today! Where would folk music be without people like Lena Spencer? She
![FILE - In this 1960 file photo provided by the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC, Lena Spencer operates the expresso machine at her coffeehouse, Caffe Lena, the year she opened it with FILE - In this 1960 file photo provided by the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC, Lena Spencer operates the expresso machine at her coffeehouse, Caffe Lena, the year she opened it with](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2P0C32C/file-in-this-1960-file-photo-provided-by-the-joe-alper-photo-collection-llc-lena-spencer-operates-the-expresso-machine-at-her-coffeehouse-caffe-lena-the-year-she-opened-it-with-her-husband-bill-a-fellow-bohemian-artist-in-saratoga-springs-ny-he-left-in-the-early-60s-not-long-after-bob-dylan-performed-there-but-lena-stayed-on-gradually-attracting-a-dedicated-following-and-booking-an-ever-growing-roster-of-folk-music-stalwarts-lena-fell-onto-hard-times-began-living-in-a-back-room-at-her-coffeehouse-and-died-at-66-in-1989-but-volunteers-and-a-non-profit-group-have-kept-her-place-2P0C32C.jpg)
FILE - In this 1960 file photo provided by the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC, Lena Spencer operates the expresso machine at her coffeehouse, Caffe Lena, the year she opened it with
100 years ago today, Lena Spencer was born. What would Saratoga be without Lena Spencer? What would folk music be without Lena Spencer? In… | Instagram
![Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, and venue owner Lena Spencer. Caffe Lena, New York City, 1962. | Musica, Historia Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, and venue owner Lena Spencer. Caffe Lena, New York City, 1962. | Musica, Historia](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/e5/ed/47e5ed3e3fdf931d3ffb364a76488700.jpg)
Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, and venue owner Lena Spencer. Caffe Lena, New York City, 1962. | Musica, Historia
![Lena Spencer, founder of fabled Phila Street coffeehouse, a model of determination, dignity and warmth – Saratogian Lena Spencer, founder of fabled Phila Street coffeehouse, a model of determination, dignity and warmth – Saratogian](https://www.saratogian.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2010/05/24bdd3283fd6a7922cd322e8caf3ff92.jpg?w=535)