Eric Nord
Eric Nord | |
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Eric "Big Daddy" Nord and Julie Meredith at a Police Commission entertainment license hearing for The Gas House, 1959 | |
| Born | Harry Helmuth Pastor 1919 Krefeld, Germany |
| Died | 1989 (aged 69–70) San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Big Daddy |
| Occupation(s) | Club owner, poet, actor |
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Eric "Big Daddy" Nord (1919–1989) was a Beat Generation coffeehouse and nightclub owner, poet, actor, and hipster. Newspaper columnist Herb Caen called him the "King of the Beatniks." Corpulent, standing 6 feet 7 inches tall, Nord was the face of the Beat generation to San Francisco and Los Angeles newspaper readers in the late 1950s and the founder of the hungry i nightclub.