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Orient-Express Hotels: 21 Club, Inn at Perry Cabin, Villa San Michele Hotel, Hotel Cipriani, Grand Hotel Europe, Hotel Splendido

Orient-Express Hotels: 21 Club, Inn at Perry Cabin, Villa San Michele Hotel, Hotel Cipriani, Grand Hotel Europe, Hotel Splendido


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Chapters: 21 Club, Inn At Perry Cabin, Villa San Michele Hotel, Hotel Cipriani, Grand Hotel Europe, Hotel Splendido, Windsor Court Hotel, Hotel Caruso, Hotel Monasterio, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 21 Club is a restaurant and former prohibition-era speakeasy, located at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. The Bar Room includes a restaurant, a lounge and, as the name implies, a bar. The walls and ceiling of the Bar Room are covered with antique toys and sports memorabilia donated by famous patrons. Perhaps the most famous feature of 21 is the line of painted cast iron jockey statues which adorns the balcony above the entrance. In the 1930s, some of the affluent customers of the bar began to show their appreciation by presenting 21 with jockeys painted to represent the racing colors of the stables they owned. There are a total of 33 jockeys on the exterior of the building, and 2 more inside the doors. The first version of the club opened in Greenwich Village in 1922, run by cousins Jack Kreindler and Charlie Berns. It was originally a small speakeasy known as the Red Head. In 1925 the location was moved to a basement on Washington Place and its name was changed to Fronton. The following year it moved uptown to 42 West 49th Street, changed its name to the Puncheon Club, and became much more exclusive. In 1929, to make way for the construction of Rockefeller Center, the club moved to its current location and changed its name to "Jack and Charlie's 21." Although raided by police numerous times during Prohibition, the two were never caught. As soon as a raid began, a system of levers was used to tip the shelves of the bar, sweeping the liquor bottles through a chute and into the city's sewers. The bar also included a secret wine cellar, w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=21577


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157290865
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: 21 Club, Inn at Perry Cabin, Villa San Michele Hotel, Hotel Cipriani, Grand Hotel Europe, Hotel Splendido
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1157290868
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr


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