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"A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and 1940s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater.
This engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taft, where his father, the best hotelman in New York, ruled a staff of Damon Runyon-esque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen and waiters.".
"The star of this memoir is Lewis's fast-talking, opinionated, imperious mother, who adapted so completely to hotel life that she rarely left the Taft. Evelyn Lewis rang the front desk when she wanted to make a telephone call, ordered the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, Hotelkeepers, Taft (Hotel : New York, N.Y.), Childhood and youth, Biography, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Manners and customs, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, New york (n.y.), biography, Hotels, new york (state), Hotels, historyPeople
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Hotel kid: a Times Square childhood
2002, Paul Dry Books
in English
- 1st Paul Dry Books ed.
0967967589 9780967967585
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