I find it hilarious that getting lost is an [intentional] feature of this hotel's design. Stayed here and explored the hotel enough times that I learned the general layout. But I definitely remember feeling perplexed in that underground parking tunnel the first time. And struggling to even find the lobby.
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I used to use this to get into town when I was in Denary student residences and then later Mercury Point and there was never any thing open in there i guess the rent was way too high and also an almost complete lack of foot fall can’t have helped I think most people just used it as a cut through to get in to town if they had dropped the rent and tried to attract some niche shops like bar gate did (I miss the bargate centre) they might have a bit more business.
I watched this video almost 30 years ago on BBC and recently I've stayed at this hotel and I've found more postmodern aspects of this hotel. It is a four star hotel with its four star price, but when you go to your room it's a one star room with broken shower, dirty linens and AC located almost in your bed. It makes you dislocated from reality thinking "is this really Bonaventure Hotel or Motel 6?" Someone should go and ask BBC Open University to post the original video with better quality.
When I was in my fist yet the only shop open was the music shop the in my second year it was totally dear we still used it as a cut through until the fully lapsed it and eventually it was demolished 😊
I used to work in the nearby Technical College in St Mary Street. Passed though this place hundreds of times through the years, as it was the easiest way to get to the town centre - walk along St Mary Street past the church and Central Hall, through the underpass and it took you right to the rear entrance of the shopping centre. Many many times I walked to the town precinct to the bookships etc and back in my lunch hour.
Powell had a great voice. To think he chucked it in the 40s and became a successful dramatic actor and film and television producer, which is what I knew him as when I was growing up. I was well into my 20s before I ever saw one of his musicals.
The Bonaventure was fantastic!There was a great Japanese restaurant where I took my date who was a double for Sean Young in Bladerunner.But,when I got to L.A. in 1982,I was staying at a dive hotel near the Greyhound station where a guy got murdered in the lobby on the third night I was there.I`d go up to the Bonaventure and hang out in there,often writing songs in those gondola shaped seats while colorful Mariachis walked around on the main floor and played some great guitar!However the best event I went to there was the Beatlefest and I bought a Beatle t-shirt.Man,that place was something else!
Paul Draper as the featured tap dancer is just amazing, and to think that this film from 1936 was made early on in Draper's tap dance development. He obviously created the choreography, which is stellar both as tap dancing and as storytelling. I'll pick out his double pullbacks at about 10:30, which he is performing so cleanly and expertly (on on his left side!) while Ruby Keeler is performing them on her right side and also releasing her right foot prior to each pull back. With technique like that she'd have a tough time reversing to the left side, like Paul. Also, just after at about 10:45, Paul starts into a step shuffle hop shuffle crossing pattern that I learned from him in 1979 when I studied with him at the American Dance Machine in NYC. Definitely one of his signature moves. This clip surely reveals Draper's talent and unique approach to tap dancing. If only he would have enjoyed his Hollywood experience...think of what wonderful tap dances he could have created!
Great to hear knowledgeable analysis from a Draper student. Maybe you could apply it to routines by some of the great movie dancers of the Golden Age? I did hear that Paul annoyed some in Hollywood by his somewhat condescending attitude, like Cyd Charisse... though that might be jealousy talking. Years later a different kind of hoofer, Jimmy Cagney, gave Draper another shot at movies in 'The Time of Your Life', but PD looked too old to be an aspiring star, and rather silly prancing about in the saloon. 'Colleen' shows him at his feather-footed best.
I accidentally wondered into The Bonaventure via a sky bridge while exploring Los Angeles as a teenager and thought I was in a dream. It is to this day the most breathtaking architectural experience I have ever had.
Thats a legendary arcade game that has naked girls after solving a puzzle. It's legendary because at the arcades kids sometimes play that game in secret and suspecting arcade owners often are like "Hey! are you kids playing that naked chicks game!?" Why is the game available in the first place? because in mexico there's "Multi game" arcade machines everywhere, they basically are emulators that run on pirated arcade boards (not a PC) and they have all the arcade games including those
Wasn't this knocked down a few years ago they took a while to knock it down mind and they havent turned it into anything its all rubble and still boarded up my dad use to be mates with the guy from the newsagents downstairs we always use to park in the car park for the football those were the days
