Bebe Buell, 65, singer, model. Factory years: early to mid-1970s.

Andy took an immediate interest in all new, fresh faces that came through the scene. He didn’t talk much. He laughed a lot. He would ask questions. It was: “Where did you get that dress?” “Oh, who did your makeup?” “Who’s that beautiful boy you’re with?”

Joe Dallesandro, 69, actor. Factory years: 1960s.

My friend said, “Let’s go over and meet the Campbell’s soup guy.” I thought it was the Campbell’s soup you eat. Warhol was an artist, but I was too young to know any of that. I was 18. When I first met him, he was sitting behind the camera reading the newspaper. When somebody laughed or did something interesting, you’d see this hand come out from behind the newspaper and turn the camera on.

David Croland, 71, model, actor, illustrator. Factory years: 1965-68.

Fashion and the art world hadn’t quite collided yet. Andy pushed it forward in a way no one had. Andy loved Halston. Halston loved Andy. There was Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti. There was Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. They would all come to New York for the season, and we would hang about together and go to Joe Eula’s house — Andy and his group, Joe and his group, Halston and his group. We were all in the same room. Marisa and Berry Berenson, Loulou de la Falaise, Elsa Peretti all socialized together.

Danny Fields, 78, music industry executive, former manager of the Ramones. Factory years: 1960s.

We all went to the San Remo in those days. That was the genesis of the first Factory. It was a bar at Bleecker and Macdougal, a tile floor place with an Italian matriarch who’d inherited it. Somehow it turned into the gay bohemian bar of the early 1960s. Andy was there with Ondine and Billy Name. Terence McNally was there with his boyfriend, Edward Albee. The Rauschenbergs and the Jaspers were there. It was watched over by this large, stern woman, like the woman in “8 1/2.” She would walk by pleased but saying: “Don’t you boys start behaving like faggots . Just behave. Don’t scream.”