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apoptoses · 1 year

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“And the following night in Boston, Armand was in the dining room of the Copley when Daniel came in. Daniel’s dinner was already ordered. Please sit down. Did Daniel know that Interview with the Vampire was in the bookstores?”

Was doing some research about what the Copley would have looked like when Armand ordered the entire menu and found this:

Assuming the Copley refers to the Fairmont Copley Plaza (which it must, all of the old articles I can find refer to it as just The Copley), the dining room was dominated by a rotating merry go round bar until 1978. The merry go round would finish a rotation once every hour, and you could eat dinner and sip cocktails while it went around.

There were even postcards of it that you could mail home:

(postcard circa 1930s)

By the time Daniel and Armand visited the decor had been updated, and looked something closer to this:

(this photo is from the 1960′s, surely by the 70′s it was even tackier)

So just imagine the surrealism of Daniel downing glass after glass of wine and having Armand have to help his drunk ass down off this thing, all while he goes through an emotional crisis over finding Armand hot when he laughs.

It’s no wonder they ended up together, Daniel is the only person wild enough to decide to go to dinner alone in the kind of bizarre place Armand would be attracted to.

#anne rice's mind i swear #what even led daniel to decide to eat here in the first place #like his first hot check from interview hitting stores gets deposited into his bank account #and he says fuck it i'm going to go blow this at a carousel bar #how did he NOT expect armand to show up in such a bizarre place?#this kind of weird shit is like catnip to him #what an incredible first date #going through and googling every location mentioned in this chapter is a wild ride #this completely rearranges what i was fixing to write tonight #armand/daniel #the devil's minion #the vampire chronicles #armand #daniel molloy

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