Compliments of
Friend Davey: check out
this slideshow of "third places" (though I like "great, good" places even better). Davey also points out how this ties in to my writings on
The Third Life(TM). If I remember correctly, I cribbed the idea for
TTL(TM) off of a series of short plays a friend of mine from college produced, all set in a coffee shop, that third place for so many of us. Perhaps she had read Oldenburg's treatise on the subject.