This ain't no Holiday Inn
Subtitle: down and out at the Chelsea Hotel, 1980-1995 : an oral history
By: by James Lough
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781936182527
Subjects: Social life and customs; Chelsea Hotel; Hotels
Other titles: Down and out at the Chelsea Hotel, 1980-1995
Description: "This oral history of the famed hotel peers behind the iconic façade and delves into the mayhem, madness, and brilliance that stemmed from the hotel in the 1980s and 1990s. Providing a window into the late Bohemia of New York during that time, countless interviews and firsthand accounts adorn this social history of one of the most celebrated and culturally significant landmarks in New York City"--Syndetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Checking in; title: Chelsea wildness; title: The three wise men of dope: beat writers Huncke, Corso, and Matz; title: Three chords and a grudge: Dee Dee Ramone and the Chelsea Hotel blues; title: Getting By; title: Stanley Bard: steel fist in velvet glove; title: Chelsea portraits; title: Checking out; title: 21st century aftermath; title: Fauxhemia: does the death of Bohemia matter?; title: Where are they now?