Putnam County, NY Bars in the 1960s — the Rock Den and the Sound of a County

There’s a particular kind of memory tucked into small-town bars: neon signs humming over sticky tabletops, mismatched stools around a battered jukebox, a cigarette smoke haze that somehow made the lights look warmer. In Putnam County, New York, the 1960s were a time when those rooms doubled as social laboratories — places where teenagers came […]