Terminal Bar: Pimps and Prostitutes

For ten years, Sheldon Nadelman took thousands of black and white photographs while bartending at the Terminal Bar, Times Square's most notorious watering hole of the 1970s. Murray Goldman, the bar's owner since 1957 was Sheldon's father-in-law as well as the filmmaker's grandfather.

In 2002 the 22 minute short film "Terminal Bar" was released with a "to be continued" promise in the end credits.

And so this is it. The next installment. It's meant to be a vignette but part of the ongoing Terminal Bar project. The interviews of Sheldon were shot in the year 2000 and 2007.

More info on the original 22 minute Terminal Bar short film can be found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/terminal_bar/

visit Sheldon's blog and see his other work: http://mynameisdoom.blogspot.com/

To see more of Stefan's work visit http://www.touristpictures.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Terminal Bar
• Times Square
• pimps
• prostitutes
• New York City
• animation
• Port Authority
• 1970s
• Sheldon Nadelman
• Stefan Nadelman
• photography
• photographs
• portraits

[Salix800]

Very interesting film but isn't there a legal issue with showing all these people and identifying them as pimps, hookers, etc. ? It seems like kind of an invasion of privacy and there's no way they have given permission.

[stainglassfox]

@SvenClavo Probably nowhere. I don't know who this "Zved" guy is, but he's like a hero to me. All of his work from this to latin alive to whatever, it's always amazing. Fucking Jesus.

[SvenClavo]

i fucking love that track. where can i get more? Dich Zved didn't turn up much in google.

[faultelectronica]

This is great. I first saw Terminal Bar on holiday in Mexico in 2004 but not in its entirety, so unfortunately didn't know what it was called to buy it. Found it in the end on Resfest DVD. I'm going to have to look for this too. Brilliant work.

[mg196]

@bufandri - You can buy it. Read the description.  Thief.

[gayedevice]

the most amazing short film I have seen for along time,,,caught it late one nite,smoking and shit...blew me away! big brother/zombie t.v it aint!!!!! death to the mainstream.

[NicosMind]

@elmuneco12 2:44 Music by Dich Zved

[elmuneco12]

WHAT SONG IS THIS??

[bufandri]

where can I download the complete documentary?

[brentrollins]

Once again, Stefan blows me away.

Fantastic, dude. Come back to NY!