tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684081688938176904.post4136591821868051383..comments2024-03-21T21:03:04.197-04:00Comments on NO PLACE FOR NORMAL: NEW YORK: 299. The Chelsea, the Craziest of HotelsClifford Browderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00387507894227214750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684081688938176904.post-61241285028096331842017-05-21T19:29:40.548-04:002017-05-21T19:29:40.548-04:00Thanks in turn for the comments. You know more a...Thanks in turn for the comments. You know more about the place than I do. The Chelsea anecdotes are seemingly endless.Clifford Browderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387507894227214750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-684081688938176904.post-14193529367435931932017-05-21T18:43:11.865-04:002017-05-21T18:43:11.865-04:00You are correct about Ed Hamilton's wonderful ...You are correct about Ed Hamilton's wonderful book about living at the Chelsea Hotel: I read it a year or so after it was first published, and Stanley Bard was seemingly a deliberate eccentric.<br /><br />Janis Joplin always stayed at the Chelsea when she was in New York because other hotels would more times than not refuse to receive her as a guest.<br /><br />Edie Sedgwick (one of Andy Warhol's superstars) nearly died in a fire in her room at the Chelsea after she fell asleep with several burning candles around her bed. Her unlucky cat (named Smoke) did not live to tell the tale.<br /><br />Mapplethorpe was quite ill when he moved into the Chelsea with Patti Smith (poet and singer), but she managed to convince Bard to let them have a small room in exchange for some line drawings she'd been working on. <br /><br />And Charles Bukowski (in one of his poems) claimed that while he was staying at the Chelsea with a girlfriend, she nearly fell out of a window (she was VERY drunk) while trying to prove how brave she was. Never a dull moment...<br /><br />I'm sure things are much different (and safer) in the present, but now that Stanley Bard is no longer with us - the infamous Chelsea Hotel will most likely become a very expensive tourist attraction: Normal people hoping to spot an eccentric ghost or two from the forever interesting past.<br /><br />Thank you for such a wonderful post. Dylan Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759482060384749407noreply@blogger.com