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newyorkthegoldenage · 7 months

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The Knickerbocker Hotel (then used as an office building), on the SE corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, 1921.

Built by John Jacob Astor, it was once home to Enrico Caruso and George M. Cohan. Other residents and guests included Geraldine Farrar, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and D.W. Griffith. Tammany Hall politicians used to hold political meetings there. The popular hotel bar was called "The 42nd Street Country Club" and the restaurant was allegedly where the velvet rope line was invented.

The hotel opened in 1901 and flourished, but it was hit hard by Prohibition and was repurposed as an office building in 1920. It reopened as a hotel in 2015.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/NY Daily News

#vintage New York #1920s #Hotel Knickerbocker #Knickerbocker Hotel #1910s #1900s #NYC landmarks #vintage Manhattan #vintage NYC

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shipwreckedcomedy · 2 years

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Shipwrecked Comedy proudly presents: Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story | Episode 8: The Heist at the Hotel

Legendary con-man Paulie Tahoe helps the gang infiltrate Storms Inn in (debatably) the heist of the century.

HEADLESS: A SLEEPY HOLLOW STORY

A new 10-part series by Shipwrecked Comedy inspired by The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Written & Created by Sean Persaud & Sinead Persaud

Directed by William J. Stribling

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oldshowbiz · 1 year

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The pint-sized Lester Allen was an old vaudeville comedian who lived at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel at 1714 Ivar Avenue.

He was run over by a car in North Hollywood in 1949 when he stepped out of Bud Abbott’s Backstage Club.

#vaudeville babylon #vaudeville #who the fuck #ventura blvd #franchise #bud abbott #Abbott and Costello #the knickerbocker #knickerbocker hotel #Ivar

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menubot · 1 year

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Only $0.35 for Ruppert's Knickerbocker at Hotel Mc Alpin? Bargain! http://menus.nypl.org/menus/31484

#menubot #What's On The Menu?#NYPL #1932 #Hotel Mc Alpin #Ruppert's Knickerbocker

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retropopcult · 4 months

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New York, 1904. "Knickerbocker Trust Building and Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fifth Avenue at W. 34th Street."

#vintage #1900s #turn of the century #horse and buggy #bank #NYC #horse drawn carriage

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hooked-on-elvis · 11 days

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The Green Scrapbook 📗

Why is Elvis a legend? Simple answer: HARD, HARD WORK... on and off stage.

That's the most interesting thing I've learned about Elvis lately.

This fanzine was out… it is called "Elvis Answers Back!", printed by Sound Publishing Corp in 1956 (view photo 8 and video 1 further on). In its pages, Elvis answer questions about his career and personal life in that genuine way we love so much about his interviews. There's very interesting answers in those pages (I'll share more in this blog in a while) but this one got me in awe. What we're about to read Elvis did in the 50s, while he was in the peak of his success as a young artist, specifically in the year of 1956, it's a demonstration of his courage, down-to-earth spirit, and a passionate level of dedication to his craft that few artists, or normal people for that matter, have.

Some of the pictures printed in the Elvis Answers Back! magazine: August 18, 1956. Elvis at the Knickerbocker Hotel, Hollywood, CA. Photograph by Ed Braslaff.

The magazine article is in topics. This one is entitled "THE GREEN SCRAPBOOK", and here's what Elvis had to say about this "rumor":

"Yes, it’s true that I keep me a scrapbook of a lot of the stuff that’s printed about me. But you know something? I don’t save the articles or stories that tell nice things about me. My scrapbook only has stuff in it that isn’t very friendly. I’ll tell you why this is. "When I first started out, my momma wanted to save all the programs and pictures and things that everyone put in the papers and magazines. I wasn’t much interested in doing this, because I was so busy singing and working and learning that I just didn’t want to take the time to sit down every so often in the middle of something and start cutting out pictures and things. Momma bought her a big green scrapbook, though, and asked me to send her stuff whenever I got the chance. For the first year or so, I didn’t send her a thing, and the scrapbook was empty, except for a couple of clippings she got out of the Memphis papers.

Some of the pictures printed in the Elvis Answers Back! magazine: (1) June 30, 1956 in Richmond, VA. Elvis drinking water after having a bowl of chili, sitting at the Jefferson Hotel lunch counter; (2) Elvis at the RCA's Studio One in NY, for a recording session on July 2, 1956, when he recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel." Both photographs by Alfred Wertheimer.

"Then one day I saw this article about me not being a very good singer. I cut that out and send it to momma and she wrote back and told me I didn’t want to fill my scrapbook with things like that. But I wrote back and told her, 'Momma, anyone can fill a scrapbook with good things. But what good does it do? I’d like to know the things people don’t particularly like and study them and try to make myself better if I can.' "So that’s how The Green Scrapbook got started. I’ve got a lot of pages filled, and a lot of them are still empty, but I’ll tell you this. Every time I go home to Memphis, I take down that scrapbook and study it. I know most of the things in it by heart, and I’m always going to do my best to improve whenever and wherever I can." — Elvis Presley, 1956 interview.

Cover of Elvis Answers Back! magazine, published on August 28, 1956 | Source: elvis100percent.com

SEE THE CONTENT IN THE PAGES OF THAT 1956 ELVIS MAGAZINE (this is an US limited edition reproduction of the 1956 original magazine):

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Thanks "Collecting King Elvis Interviews and Memobilia" Youtube channel for sharing this gem.

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I just crossed an interview of Elvis for the Hy Gardner Show ("Hy Gardner Calling") on July 1, 1956 (right after Elvis' performance on the Steve Allen Show). Hy Gardner asked Elvis if he reads the reviews on his concerts and he answers it with "Not if I can help it". Then Gardner goes on in the same matter and asks him further, "Do you keep a scrapbook at all?" -- Elvis' answer to this: "Only of the good stuff." -- We can figure, although Elvis had the Green Scrapbook probably since 1954, considering he said 'When I first started out, my momma wanted to save all the programs and pictures (...)', it was around mid 1956 that Elvis consciously decided to face his detractors more often and make a good use of their critics to help him improving his act. Fascinating. It's fascinating for a young man as talented, handsome and successful as he was, to pause the rush of excitement going on within himself just so he could think things through. Elvis was enjoying a tremendous amount of success already, so it would be more convenient to just have fun and let it happen while it lasted. 1956 was THE year when everything he ever dreamed about was happening at once in his life and he couldn't be more excited and thrilling with the attention he was getting from all over, yet that young man had the maturity to understand he had to keep working hard so he truly could have something worth sharing with the world, something better to offer to the people who seemed be starving for more of him. Fascinating.

WATCH THE FULL HY GARDNER INTERVIEW WITH ELVIS (July 1, 1956):

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federer7 · 6 months

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Above: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Thirty-Fourth Street and Fifth Avenue. Drawing by Joseph Pennell, between ca. 1904 and 1908

Below: Knickerbocker Trust Building and [Waldorf] Astoria, New York. Photo by Detroit Publishing Company, 1904

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vintage-tigre · 4 months

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Elvis Presley, 1956 - photographed listening to records in the Knickerbocker Hotel

#elvis presley #50s elvis #50s photography #50s icons #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #style #rock n roll #vinyl records #50s music

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presleypictures · 1 year

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Wearing his self titled belt at the Knickerbocker hotel in Hollywood – August 18, 1956.

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if-i-can-dream-of-elvis · 2 years

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Elvis Presley at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood, 1956.

#elvis presley #elvis #presleyedit #photo #50s #1956 #candid #my edit #oh these little moments of peace and quiet #i wonder what he was playing #wish i was there with him #🥺

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citizenscreen · 8 months

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The front entrance to the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel located at 1714 Ivar Avenue circa 1946. The building has been linked with tragic deaths including D.W. Griffith, costume designer Irene Gibbons, and William Frawley.

#vintage hollywood

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dreamingofep · 2 years

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Day #23 of finding pics of E I’ve never seen before. This is a very special day because you get a 2 for 1. I needed to show you the front and back of him just looking mighty fine at the Knickerbocker Hotel🥵

Like are you kidding me. I already have no control. His back 😮‍💨 Needs my nails down it.

#elvis presley #elvis 2022 #elvis movie #austin butler elvis #elvis fans #elvis photos #elvis history #elvisaaronpresley #elvis austin butler

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the1920sinpictures · 2 years

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1920′s A bathroom at the Knickerbocker Hotel, New York City. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

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oldshowbiz · 10 months

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Pranking the Hollywood Plaza Hotel and the Hollywood Knickerbocker.

#knickerbocker hotel #the knickerbocker #hollywood #hollywood blvd #ivar #vine st

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voca1ion · 3 months

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The beautiful Knickerbocker Hotel on 42nd Street and Broadway. Originally a hotel, it was soon converted to offices. Today it has been converted back into a hotel and looks as lovely as it ever did. Note the IRT subway entrance kiosks at the corner and the 42nd Street streetcar.

#history #1910s aesthetic #1910s art #1910s #vintage postcards #postcards #nyc history #nyc #new york city #vintage nyc #broadway #hotel design #voca1ion

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tearyeye-private-i · 1 year

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Jerry Lee Lewis, c. July 1959. From JLL.org

Elvis Presley, Knickerbocker Hotel, Hollywood, August 18, 1956. From ElvisPresleyMusic.com.

[ 12 Days of Christmas 💕 5/12 ]

At the start of my research, I found all sorts of stories, I wasn’t sure were even true. Like, Elvis and Jerry Lee riding around on motorcycles, with no clothes on the streets of Memphis, in the middle of the night? No way – but as time passed, the story got brought up to him three times (from what I know). He had a consistent reaction, that has led me to believe it happened.

Though, the stories are subjective, so you can draw your own conclusion!

The first reference of the story:

“In a crowded basement meeting room at the posh Omni-Memphis Hotel, 20-some journalists are attempting, with difficulty, to grill the subject of the forthcoming film “Great Balls of Fire”

The discussion, which never quite seems to interconnect, has degenerated to a foreign-sounding report’s question about whether the film’s subject, Jerry Lee Lewis – rock music’s archetypal bad boy – ever motorbiked naked with Elvis Presley, his fellow Memphian an ultra-rival.

“Motorbike?” Lewis says, archly, dismissively.

“Nekkid? Me and Elvis Presley?” His eyes suddenly narrow, “how’d you know that?”

“It’s in Joe Smith’s book,” says a reporter.

“You can’t believe nothin’…” Lewis mutters, his voice trailing off. “Well, that was 3 o’clock in the morning,” he suddenly adds, prompting explosive laughter from the journalists. “It really was,” he goes on with a grain.

“There was nobody out then—except this one policeman on a horse, and he was doing his dead-level best to catch us. Now, that was a sight. If anybody woulda saw that, we never woulda sold no more records. That woulda been the end of that.” Pause, his eyes narrowing again. “How’d you know that?”

“It’s in Joe Smith’s book,” the reporter repeats.

“Who’s Joe Smith?”

“The head of Capitol Records. Used to be head of Elektra Records.”

“Well, that’s ridiculous. That’s not right. Do you believe that?”

“You just told us it happened at 3 o’clock in the morning,” the reported notes.

“I can’t believe people will believe anything you say.”

“Well, is it true?” Another reporter asks.

“Yes. It’s true.”

Welcome, folks to talking with the Killer, a 54-year-old rock king dethroned before his time – in fact, before his prime – by the 1958 disclosure of a mad marriage to his 13-year-old second cousin.

The scandal caused Lewis, a Bible college dropout, to fall from rock ‘n’ roll grace into comparative oblivion – made all the more bruising by the fact that he was arguably the most intense performer, and most brilliant self-taught pianist, to ever rattle music stages around the world.”

From “THE KILLER BLOWS SMOKE FOR ‘FIRE’” by Jack Hurst and Country music. Chicago Tribune, June 24, 1989.

The second reference is from the book the reporter mentioned, actually, it’s called “Buddy Holly: Biography” by Ellis Amburn. In it, Ellis wrote that record executive Joe Smith and Jerry Lee spoke on the plane, during Buddy Holly, along with Paul Anka’s tour to Australia. They’d been drinking when Jerry Lee “confessed,” which is the word Ellis used. That yes, indeed, he and Elvis went on a naked motorcycle ride at 2:30 AM in Memphis, in a young Jerry Lee’s own words; “only for thirty-five or forty seconds, ‘round the corner and back.”

The third reference was from “Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story” by Rick Bragg. When asked the same question, instead of brushing it off or saying it wasn’t true. Jerry Lee laughed and said he can’t say anything about that because “Elvis isn’t here to defend himself.”

So, while Jerry Lee was right that you can’t believe everything anyone says, that doesn’t mean there aren’t patterns. Maybe, he thought it was funny to lie. Maybe, it happened and so what? It’s just two bros cruising down the street at night, naked on motorbikes, 5 feet apart – ‘cause they’re not gay. 😋

Other important lessons are if you do happen to go motorbiking naked with your supposed arch nemesis, don’t get caught, and don’t tell anyone about it!

#Jerry Lee Lewis #He saw Elvis nekkid #Elvis Presley #He didn't know how to act #only around the corner #only #It's like he tryna convince himself #Sun//JLL #Sun//EP #Sun//Together #Story Time #//MyPosts #//Edits #JLL//50s #EP//50s

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