Linnaea's Cafe was founded in 1984 by Linnaea Phillips. Marianne Orme bought the Cafe in January of 2007. It began as a classic '50s-style coffeehouse with Beatniks, espresso and folk performers such as Jean Ritchie, Rosalie Sorrells and Utah Phillips. Still has espresso, monthly poetry readings, weekly jazz jams, weekend singer-songwriters and acoustic rock bands. San Luis Obispo (SLO) is the county seat and home of California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) with a population of 45,000. It is almost exactly (about a 4 hour drive) between Los Angeles & San Francisco, a few miles from the coast, where Highways 1 and 101 meet.