![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
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
![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)