tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post195328941364222254..comments2024-03-28T12:11:12.965-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: White House bluesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-47513573621078330992010-01-18T12:57:21.384-05:002010-01-18T12:57:21.384-05:00Goggla- you're cute!Goggla- you're cute!Eddie Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-6890809146416003152010-01-15T15:59:07.435-05:002010-01-15T15:59:07.435-05:00Ha, no, the eye patch came from too much time on a...Ha, no, the eye patch came from too much time on a stool at Mars Bar!<br /><br />That, and Santa brought me an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, Range Model air rifle with a compass on the stock and this thing which tells time. ;)Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-17194478692472938842010-01-15T15:48:30.789-05:002010-01-15T15:48:30.789-05:00Wow Goggla, that's some story. Is that how you...Wow Goggla, that's some story. Is that how you got the eye patch ;)Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04362859175287085919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-36611313649651041352010-01-13T14:07:18.502-05:002010-01-13T14:07:18.502-05:00Thanks for sharing this, Goggla.Thanks for sharing this, Goggla.EV Grievehttp://evgrieve.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-32927240445516505052010-01-13T13:38:20.403-05:002010-01-13T13:38:20.403-05:00Sigh. I have mixed feelings about the White House...Sigh. I have mixed feelings about the White House - it causes me great anxiety, but I definitely do not want to lose it.<br /><br />About ten years ago, I experienced some misfortune and found myself without a place to live. Having no friends or family, and looking for somewhere to spend the night, I ended up on the Bowery (where else?) and since this looked like the nicest place (and not a men-only establishment), I went in to get a $30 cubicle. The lobby was full of men sleeping and snoring loudly. At the back, a grumpy old man behind a barred window glared at me and asked what I wanted. I told him I needed a room and he flatly said NO. After some back-and-forth, he said he refused to do business with anyone from New York or New Jersey. All the ID I had on me at the time was my passport, which does not list an address, so I could not prove that I was not a local vagrant weaseling my way into a cheap permanent residence. So, i was turned back out to the street with nowhere else to go.<br /><br />In the years since, I walk by this place almost daily and feel a couple of things - defiance, because I did eventually pick myself up and got along without the help of the White House and, fear, because it's a reminder of how close the gutter is and how easy it is to be sucked into it. To erase this place would be to forget what the Bowery has always been...that last stop, the bottom from which there is nowhere else to go but up.Laura Goggin Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517481509431547970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-53454231173440068902010-01-13T12:47:54.903-05:002010-01-13T12:47:54.903-05:00is nothing sacred? hopefully the landmark commiss...is nothing sacred? hopefully the landmark commission will get some balls...glammanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-80737056481453298372010-01-13T11:56:01.238-05:002010-01-13T11:56:01.238-05:00as if there aren't enough trendy hotels in the...as if there aren't enough trendy hotels in the neighborhood already. soon every block will have at least one...like starbucks, duane reade, or a bank.Bowery Boogiehttp://www.boweryboogie.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-5194849671639950642010-01-13T10:36:31.086-05:002010-01-13T10:36:31.086-05:00Thanks NYC DreaminThanks NYC DreaminKen Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100185198750536244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-8777413167291622972010-01-13T08:58:03.293-05:002010-01-13T08:58:03.293-05:00Thanks, NYCD — that book is a compelling portrait ...Thanks, NYCD — that book is a compelling portrait of the former neighborhood.EV Grievehttp://evgrieve.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-66628786279282471742010-01-13T08:00:51.938-05:002010-01-13T08:00:51.938-05:00There are many more great photographs and stories ...There are many more great photographs and stories from the White House (and others including the Sunshine Hotel) in the book "Flophouse: Life On The Bowery" that came out in 2000. The book is a "must have" for anyone interested in the now-mostly vanished culture of life in the flophouses of NYC... <br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Flophouse-Life-Bowery-David-Isay/dp/0375758313/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263387337&sr=1-1NYCDreaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820396317001769970noreply@blogger.com