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Martinis at the Bar. Sinatra on Repeat. The TWA Hotel Sells a Jet-Age Fantasy.
NY Times ^ | July 1, 2019 | Michael Kimmelman

Posted on 07/02/2019 5:50:07 AM PDT by C19fan

Within the first couple of weeks there were half a dozen marriage proposals. Guys dropping to their knees in the Sunken Lounge and on the cantilevered catwalk — popping the question on the Solari split-flap departure board or in “Connie,” the 1958 TWA Lockheed Constellation Starliner parked outside on the roof of a new underground conference center, the plane’s fuselage converted into a 60’s-era cocktail lounge.

The TWA Hotel now occupies Eero Saarinen’s stupendously restored 1962 TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, midcentury modernism’s great tribute to sex, adventure and the golden age of air travel. It is attracting the predictable mix of nostalgic baby boomers, design-conscious hipsters and stylish Europeans.

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To: Dilbert San Diego

As one of our friend - a priest who is a nudist - said, ‘He doesn’t care if you are clothed or if you are like Adam and Eve - just come as you are.’ Yes, he does sermons at a naturist resort in Pasco County.


41 posted on 07/02/2019 6:08:03 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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