Mosaic Man

The former home of Bill Graham's Fillmore East is on Second Avenue 6th Street.
Bill Graham, 1/8/31-10/25/91, was born Wolodia Grajonca in Berlin, Germany.  His father died 2 days after his birth so his mother sent him to an orphanage in  France.  She died at Auschwitz, and he was sent to America.  Why don't we say murdered.  Yeah, she was murdered at Auschwitz.  Raised in a foster home in the Bronx, he graduated from De Witt Clinton H.S. and City College.  He served in Korea and received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star.  Thanks to him I saw some great Rock and Roll shows at Fillmore East.  It had such great acoustics that over 30 live recordings were made there.  Among them were: The Allman Brothers, Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Laura Nyro, Taj Mahal, Neil Young and Frank Zappa.
The building had been built as a Yiddish Theater when 2nd. Ave. was known as the Jewish Rialto. 

The mosaic designs on light poles in the East Village are the work of "Mosaic Man" Jim Power and he has been building the Mosaic Trail in the east Village for 25 years.  Some are decorative and some are made to landmark a site like this one in front of the old Fillmore East.  He's planning on doing one in front of the old CBGB's.  But mostly he has been busy repairing and restoring the ones damaged during the Giuliani administration.  He survives on donations, and if you like what he does, you'll find his address on line, google Jim Power, the Mosaic Man.