The wooden sign that hung outside the venue was carved by James Jackson. The bar was on the left side as one entered the venue. It could fit 75 people but often held twice that. The interior of the club was longer than it was wide and the bandstand all the way in the back. The venue was called "Slugs' in the Far East", due to its easterly location in the East Village. Due to New York City regulations, the word "saloon" had to be dropped from the name. In 1964, Robert Schoenholt and Jerry Schultz opened it as a club and initially called it "Slugs' Saloon", the "slugs" being a reference to the "three-centered beings" and "terrestrial three-brained beings" mentioned in the book Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Gurdjieff.
The location, in what was then a run-down part of New York City, first hosted a Ukrainian restaurant and bar, and later a bar that served as a meeting point for drug dealers. Slugs' Saloon was a jazz club at 242 East 3rd Street, between Avenue B and C in Manhattan's East Village, operating from the mid-1960s to 1972. Manhattan, New York City, East Village jazz club (1964-1972)
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