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N2NH
03-29-2013, 07:16 PM
It is the historic Hotel Chelsea and has had many famous people stay there. A short snippet from WiKi:


The Hotel Chelsea, also known as the Chelsea Hotel, or simply the Chelsea, is a historic New York City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City) hotel and landmark, known primarily for its history of notable residents. Located at 222 West 23rd Street (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23rd_Street_%28Manhattan%29), between Seventh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh_Avenue_%28Manhattan%29) and Eighth Avenues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Avenue_%28Manhattan%29), in the Manhattan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan) neighborhood of Chelsea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea,_New_York), the 250-unit hotel has been the home of numerous writers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer), musicians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians), artists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist), and actors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actors), including Bob Dylan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan), Virgil Thomson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Thomson), Charles Bukowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski), Janis Joplin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin), Leonard Cohen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen), Patti Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Smith), Iggy Pop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop), Jobriath (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobriath), and Larry Rivers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Rivers). Though the Hotel Chelsea no longer accepts new long-term residencies, the building is still home to many residents who lived there before the change of policy. As of August 1, 2011, the hotel has closed for renovations.


Arthur C. Clarke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke) wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28novel%29) while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg), and Gregory Corso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Corso) chose it as a place for philosophical and artistical exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas) was staying when he died of pneumonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia) on November 9, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Spungen), girlfriend of Sid Vicious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Vicious) of the Sex Pistols (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Pistols), was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978. Arthur Miller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Miller) has written a short piece, "The Chelsea Affect", describing life at The Chelsea in the early 1960s.


The building has been a designated New York City landmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Landmarks) since 1966, and on the National Register of Historic Places (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) since 1977.

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Devon Wilson who was with Jimi Hendrix when he died, died herself a year later at the Chelsea after falling or being pushed out a window.

WØTKX
03-29-2013, 08:00 PM
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K7SGJ
03-29-2013, 09:30 PM
Jeeebus. Sounds like the Hotel California.

NQ6U
03-29-2013, 11:23 PM
Funny that the Wikipedia didn't mention my stay there back in '78.

VE7DCW
03-29-2013, 11:28 PM
Jeeebus. Sounds like the Hotel California.

..... or a place where Stephen King did all his bizarro writing!! :yes:

K7SGJ
03-29-2013, 11:42 PM
..... or a place where Stephen King did all his bizarro writing!! :yes:

Can you imagine being his little kid, and having him tell you a bedtime story?

K7SGJ
03-29-2013, 11:44 PM
Funny that the Wikipedia didn't mention my stay there back in '78.


They did mention a while ago, but removed it when eveyone started dying off. You have that effect on people. Is it a gift or something?

NQ6U
03-30-2013, 12:02 AM
They did mention a while ago, but removed it when eveyone started dying off. You have that effect on people. Is it a gift or something?

Yes, it is a gift. BTW, when are you next coming to San Diego?

K7SGJ
03-30-2013, 12:14 AM
Yes, it is a gift. BTW, when are you next coming to San Diego?

Headed for Austin the end of this month, then get back and finish up moving the business and selling the building, and then a drive by to your neck of the woods. Maybe July or so, maybe sooner if things go better than expected. Coincidentally, the XYL and I were discussing that very thing this morning. We haven't been there for a couple of years and are very overdue. When our daughter was living in Ocean Beach, and teaching in National City, we used to get there 2-3 times a year. What brought it up was I found a 2011 receipt in the truck from the HRO in SD for an RF adapter I had to buy since I forgot to take one with us.

VE7DCW
03-30-2013, 01:02 AM
They did mention a while ago, but removed it when eveyone started dying off. You have that effect on people. Is it a gift or something?

I hope it's not attributable to the "Pope Carlo" effect...... I fear all those paranormal types would grab the ball and really run with it! :bfd:

K7SGJ
03-30-2013, 03:39 PM
I hope it's not attributable to the "Pope Carlo" effect...... I fear all those paranormal types would grab the ball and really run with it! :bfd:

No one in their right mind would even think of touching the Pope's balls.

NQ6U
03-30-2013, 04:59 PM
No one in their right mind would even think of touching the Pope's balls.

In fact, a couple of people did just last weekend and I had to pay Kaiser Permanente a hundert bucks. Bastids.

N8YX
03-30-2013, 05:37 PM
Can you imagine being his little kid, and having him tell you a bedtime story?
I watched an interview of him some time ago, as a prelude to the network TV showing of The Tommyknockers. In the interview, King recounts his dad and uncle discussing baseball...and his young mind fixated on the Twi-Night Double Header which he felt for sure had taken up residence under his bed.

And now you know one of the spark plugs which ignited his penchant for writings of monsters.