Ralf Rost

Bobby Cole: A Point of View

by Randy Poe
January 20, 2023

Frank Sinatra walks into a bar... ...Specifically, he walks into Jilly's, on 52nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Actually, Jilly's was more of a piano bar/restaurant. Sinatra chose to call it a “bistro." It was right there inside the matchbooks scattered all around the joint—back when people still ate and smoked at the same time—in public. On the matchbook cover was a drawing of a red piano right next to a jauntily-fonted “Jilly's." When opened, the inside cover read, ...