Ernie Harburg

Ernie Harburg is a social psychologist and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, coauthor (with Bernard Rosenberg) of The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art, and Yip Harburg's son.

From The Del Rio: hippie hotbed

Last Call: 2004

"The Del was never a big money maker for its owners, but its last decade was particularly difficult. A number of new bars had sprung up as competitors, and newcomers, including the students, were less enamored of a place that seemed stuck in the Woodstock era. Also, newer employers were much less committed to the bar’s idealism than were their predecessors. In 2002, the Del owners began moving toward more traditional management, but a mutiny didn’t occur until a new hard-line manager fired some old-timers and announced strict rules. Furious Del employees, joined by some customers, picketed the bar—and owners Harburg, Rick Burgess, and Betty Vary decided they’d had enough. The bar closed in December 2004. At the tearful closing party, a nude woman strolled through, like a character out of the rock musical “Hair.”"

“It outlived its era,” reflects Betty Vary. But Harburg recalls with pride, “We had a hell of a run.”

Links

• Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?,
• Deena Rosenberg and Ernie Harburg 'S Wonderful Meets Something Sort of Grandish:The Computer and Arts Project,
• Wikipedia,
• "Remembering Yip Harburg" - Jewish Currents,
• "E.Y. "Yip" Harburg" by Benjamin Sears,
• "Island of Research " I have seen this image The Island of Research used in presentations about academic research and design and I have always wondered where it came from ..."

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• Residence: 1940 -  23 Balfour Balfour Place, A D 18, Kings, New York, USA
• Race: White
• relation to head: nephew
• Updated from 1940 United States Federal Census by SmartCopy: Oct 18 2014, 21:51:22 UTC