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hotel chelsea
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Leonard Cohen wrote "Chelsea Hotel #2" about a romantic encounter with Janis Joplin at the Chelsea. It was released on the 1974 album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
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from chelsea hotel posted in history by pete_nice
Few standing structures have had the varied cultural impact that the Chelsea has on popular culture. Built from 1883-1885, the twelve-story red-brick building was one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.
While staying at the Chelsea, Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Dylan Thomas was staying at the Chelsea when he died of pneumonia on November 9, 1953.
On October 12, 1978, Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of Sid Vicious) was found stabbed to death here.
Today, the Chelsea no longer accepts new residents and is privately owned, but many previous long-term residents are protected by state rent regulations.
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from janis joplin posted in music by donkeyoti
Located in a building built in 1898 as a flophouse for transient men, the Village Gate nightclub opened at the corner of Bleeker and Thompson in 1958.
The Village Gate was a popular jazz club for many years. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, and many more played here. Aretha Franklin had her NYC debut at the Village Gate.
From 1971 to 1973, a musical comedy revue called National Lampoon's Lemmings had a successful run at the Gate. Starring John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, the show lampooned the 1969 Woodstock Festival, calling it Woodchuck.
In 2001, the off-Broadway theater in the basement, the Village Theater, hosted a play based on Janis Joplin called Love, Janis.
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Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin on lead vocals) played their New York City debut at the Anderson Theater (a former Yiddish theater) on February 17, 1968.
A vintage review of the show can be read here.
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The name of the building was the Hanover House or the Hanover Hotel, and it was located at 101 West 43rd Street on the northwest corner of 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue (now called Avenue of the Americas). Currently, it is the International Center for Photography.
This blogger does a great job analyzing the different views Guthrie would have had out his window as he wrote his most famous song.
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