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020 $a0967967589 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm49494995
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dNNC$dOrLoB-B
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050 00 $aF128.5$b.L694 2002
100 1 $aLewis, Stephen,$d1929-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002026178
245 10 $aHotel kid :$ba Times Square childhood /$cby Stephen Lewis.
250 $a1st Paul Dry Books ed.
260 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. :$bPaul Dry Books,$c2002.
263 $a0208
300 $a214 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aThis 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.".
520 8 $a"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.
600 10 $aLewis, Stephen,$d1929-$xChildhood and youth.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108455
610 20 $aTaft (Hotel : New York, N.Y.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aHotelkeepers$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
610 20 $aTaft (Hotel : New York, N.Y.)$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aTimes Square (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $bglx$hF128.5$i.L694 2002