Bill Hahn's Hotel
Westbrook, Connecticut
July 14, 1962
Barbra Streisand contributed her singing talents to a weekend fundraiser at Bill Hahn's in Westbrook Connecticut in 1962.
Situated on a bluff facing Long Island Sound, the resort has been described as having a casual, friendly, and modest atmosphere.
For the July 1962 fundraiser, Streisand appeared onstage for part of the five-hour show. Henny Youngman, Art Carney, and Barbra performed that evening.
Owner Bill Hahn booked young talent, including Woody Allen and Art Carney. Streisand probably played one (or more) other gigs at his resort, although those dates are unknown.
(Above: A 1955 postcard shows the comfortable interior of Hahn's resort—this is the entrance to the Library building.)
A member of a group called The Three Young Men From Montana recalled his weekends with Barbra at the resort to author Shaun Considine: “Everybody loved her, mainly because it was a Jewish sort of place. She'd giggle and laugh and they got everything ... At the end of the show Bill Hahn always made us get together to sing a closing number.”
In a 1980 newspaper article about Hahn's resort, Kim Nickerson, who was a waiter, recalled serving Streisand there. “Streisand was a young girl in blue jeans and she was outrageous. She was with an entourage: New York, artsy. Bill said to me, ‘You really ought to stay and watch the show,’ so I did. She got up and started to sing with such magnitude and resonance, everybody knew.”
Another former employee of Hahn's wrote Barbra Archives to say he thought Barbra was there in 1962. “Streisand was up with her husband Elliot Gould.” He also recalled that Streisand sang for about three hours.
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