Tales of the Chelsea Hotel

Click here to see list of people associated with the Chelsea Hotel (in order of appearance): Patti Smith, Sam Shepard, Bob Dylan, Katherine Dunham , O. Henry, Joseph O'Neill, Nancy Spungeon & Sid Vicious, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Herbert Huncke, Robert Mapplethorpe, Holly Woodlawn, Dennis Hopper, Jimi Hendrix, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Wolfe, Arthur Miller & Marilyn Monroe, Brendan Behan, Storme DeLarverie, Milos Foreman, Germaine Greer, Rufus Wainwright, Ruth Harkness, Ethan Hawke, Allen Ginsberg, Virgil Thomson, Susanne Bartsch & David Barton, Lance Loud, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, William Burroughs & Jack Kerouac, Andy Warhol, Sarah Bernhardt, Dylan Thomas, William Dean Howells, Zaldy, Jane Fonda, Herbert Gentry, Janis Joplin, Derek Walcott, Lou Reed & Holly Woodlawn, Susanne Bartsch & David Barton and Patti Smith, painting by David Combs at the end. Of course, many more fascinating people have been associated with the Chelsea than you see here; there just isn't room for all of them in this video or in the display. Also note that all people in this display did not live in the Chelsea; some just visited there, but they all did something interesting there!
My thanks to David Combs, Ed Hamilton and Sherill Tippins for their help with this display. Ed wrote "Legends of the Chelsea Hotel," and Sherill is working on a book on the history of the hotel.
Display at the Chevy Chase Branch Library, Washington DC, November 2010.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Chelsea
• Hotel
• New
• York
• City
• Manhattan

[ChevyChaseLibrary]

Actually Edie Sedgewick was in the display, she just doesn't appear in this video. There are a lot of people who appeared in the display itself who are not in the video.... just too many people to squeeze in. I will admit I should have made sure to get her in the video. Too late now! Sorry.

[robbob35]

What? No Edie Sedgwick??

[hummer14455]

awwwwsome.go Rufus!

[Wagsfriend]

This is just fantastic.  I love this display so much.