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Country of Origin
United States
Signed
No
Book Series
N/A
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Inscribed
No
Edition
Book Club Edition
Vintage
Yes
California Prop 65 Warning
N/A
Personalize
No
Literary Movement
Realism
Era
1950s
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, Unabridged
Personalization Instructions
N/A
ISBN
9780967967585

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Dry Books, Incorporated, Paul
ISBN-10
0967967589
ISBN-13
9780967967585
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2247156

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hotel Kid : a Times Square Childhood
Number of Pages
214 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Personal Memoirs, General, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels
Publication Year
2002
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Stephen Lewis
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.5 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-004747
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
974.7/1043
Synopsis
"Funny, poignant, sad and wistful...This is a very fine book--about a person, and a city, growing up."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries."-- Library Journal (starred review) "The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel."-- San Francisco Chronicle A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s 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. His 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 Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade. 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 all the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks. During the Depression, the tough kids from Hell's Kitchen who went to grade school with Stephen marveled at the lavish spreads his mother offered her friends at lunch every day, and later even his wealthy classmates at Horace Mann-Lincoln were impressed by the limitless hot fudge sundaes available to the Lewis boys. Lewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In Hotel Kid , lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world. "Charming."-- New York Times " T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's"-- Kirkus Reviews "A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era."-- Bloomsbury Review "Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. Hotel Kid pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups."--Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family, Funny, poignant, sad and wistful...This is a very fine book--about a person, and a city, growing up.-- Philadelphia Inquirer This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries.-- Library Journal (starred review) The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel.-- San Francisco Chronicle A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s 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. His 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 Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade. 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 all the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks. During the Depression, the tough kids from Hell's Kitchen who went to grade school with Stephen marveled at the lavish spreads his mother offered her friends at lunch every day, and later even his wealthy classmates at Horace Mann-Lincoln were impressed by the limitless hot fudge sundaes available to the Lewis boys. Lewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In Hotel Kid , lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world. Charming.-- New York Times T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's-- Kirkus Reviews A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era.-- Bloomsbury Review Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. Hotel Kid pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups.--Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family, "Funny, poignant, sad and wistful...This is a very fine book--about a person, and a city, growing up."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "This delightful yet poignant memoir is highly recommended for both public and academic libraries."-- Library Journal (starred review) "The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel."-- San Francisco Chronicle A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s 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. His 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 Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade. 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 all the family's meals from room service, and had her dresses sent over from Saks. During the Depression, the tough kids from Hell's Kitchen who went to grade school with Stephen marveled at the lavish spreads his mother offered her friends at lunch every day, and later even his wealthy classmates at Horace Mann-Lincoln were impressed by the limitless hot fudge sundaes available to the Lewis boys. Lewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In Hotel Kid , lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world. "Charming."-- New York Times "[T]his postcard from a vanished age nicely captures a special childhood rivaling Eloise's"-- Kirkus Reviews "A colorful and nostalgic snapshot of a vanished era."-- Bloomsbury Review "Chockfull of history and wit, Stephen Lewis' account of his charming yet preposterous childhood spent in a suite at the Taft Hotel ordering from room service and playing games like elevator free fall is a five-star read. Hotel Kid pays tribute to an elegant time long ago that was very elegant and is very gone. It's a book we've been waiting for without realizing it: at long last, an Eloise for grown ups."--Madeleine Blais, author of Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family, "The charming Hotel Kid is as luxurious as the lobby in a five-star hotel." --The San Francisco Chronicle
LC Classification Number
F128.5.L694 2002

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