ʻO ka Algonquin Hotel: ʻOi aku ma mua o The Puritan

Ua hoʻolālā mua ʻia ka Hotel Algonquin ma ke ʻano he hōkele hale me ka manaʻo o ka hoʻolimalima ʻana i nā lumi a me nā suites i hoʻolimalima ʻia i kēlā me kēia makahiki i nā mea hoʻolimalima mau. I ka wā i kūʻai ʻia aku ai ka liʻiliʻi o nā hoʻolimalima, ua hoʻoholo ka mea nona ka hale e hoʻolilo iā ia i hōkele liʻiliʻi, kahi āna e kapa ai ʻo "The Puritan." Ua kūʻē ʻo Frank Case, ka luna nui mua, a haʻi aku i ka mea nona "ʻo ia… kūʻē i ka ʻuhane o ka mālama hale. He anu, pāpā a ʻino. ʻAʻole au makemake ia.” I ka pane ʻana o ka mea nona, "Manaʻo ʻoe he akamai ʻoe, inā paha e loaʻa iā ʻoe kahi inoa ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi," hele ʻo Case i ka hale waihona puke e ʻike ai ʻo wai ka poʻe mua a ikaika loa ma kēia wahi. Ua hāʻule ʻo ia i ka Algonquins, makemake i ka ʻōlelo, makemake i ke ʻano kūpono i ka waha, a lanakila ʻo ia ma luna o ka luna e ʻae.

Ua hoʻolālā ʻia ka Hotel Algonquin e ka mea kākau ʻo Goldwin Starrett me 181 lumi. Ua lawe ka Luna Nui ʻo Frank Case i ka hoʻolimalima ma 1907 a laila kūʻai i ka hōkele i ka makahiki 1927. Ua noho ʻo Case i ka mea nona a me ka luna a hiki i kona make ʻana i ka makahiki 1946.

ʻO ka Algonquin Round Table kaulana i hoʻomaka ʻia e General Manager Case me kahi hui o nā mea keaka o New York City, nā mea nūpepa, nā mea hoʻolaha, nā mea hoʻohewa a me nā mea kākau i hui i kēlā me kēia lā i ka ʻaina awakea e hoʻomaka ana i Iune 1919. Ua hui lākou no ka hapa maikaʻi o nā makahiki he ʻumi ma ka lumi Pergola (i kapa ʻia ʻo ke Keʻena ʻOka i kēia manawa). ʻO Franklin P. Adams, ka mea kākau moʻolelo; ʻO Robert Benchley, ka mea hoʻohenehene a me ka mea keaka; Heywood Broun, mea kākau a me ka mea kākau haʻuki; ʻO Marc Connelly, ka mea hana keaka; ʻO George S. Kaufman, ka mea pāʻani a me ke alakaʻi; ʻO Dorothy Parker, ka haku mele a me ka mea kākau kiʻi; Harold Ross, Lunahooponopono o ka New Yorker; ʻO Robert Sherwood, ka mea kākau a me ka mea hana keaka; John Peter Toohey, mea hoolaha; a me Alexander Woollcott, ka mea hoohewa a me ka mea kakau nupepa. Ma ka makahiki 1930, ua hoʻopuehu ʻia nā lālā o ka Papa Poʻo mua, akā ua ola mau ka mea i kapa ʻia ʻo "Vicious Circle" i loko o ka hoʻomanaʻo mellow a me ka ʻoluʻolu. I ka nīnau ʻana i ka mea i lilo i ka Papa Pōʻai, e pane ʻo Frank Case "He aha ka mea i lilo i ka waihona ma Fifth Avenue a me 42nd Street? ʻAʻole mau kēia mau mea. Ua lōʻihi ka lōʻihi o ka papa ʻaina ma mua o nā hui ʻē aʻe aʻu i ʻike ai. Hoʻomau ka hihia. "ʻAʻohe oʻu ʻike i kahi (hui) kahi i kiʻekiʻe loa ka pākēneka o ka kūleʻa. ʻAʻole hiki i kekahi kanaka i waena o lākou ke hoʻokau i kona inoa kiʻekiʻe ma ke kula āna i hana ai, a ʻoiai paha he mea maʻalahi wau, me ka lawe wale ʻana i nā mea āpau, ʻaʻole wau i naʻaupō i ka ʻike ʻole ʻana he mea ʻole ia. waiwai i ka hōkele ma ke ʻano ʻoihana, a me ka hauʻoli pilikino mau iaʻu e hōʻoia i ka hui maikaʻi i kēlā me kēia lā. ʻO ia, ke manaʻo nei au, ʻo ia kekahi o nā mea ʻoluʻolu loa o ka mālama ʻana i ka hōkele, ʻoiai inā he liʻiliʻi kou hōkele; nā hoa maikaʻi, kamaʻilio maikaʻi, a me ka hauʻoli nui o ke ola. ʻAʻole pono ʻoe e hoʻoikaika; Hāʻawi hou ʻia ia i kēlā me kēia lā, uku mua ʻia.

I ʻOkakopa 1946, kūʻai ʻo Ben lāua ʻo Mary Bodne o Charleston, SC, i ka Algonquin no ka $1 miliona wale nō. Ua aloha lākou i ka hōkele i ko lākou mahina meli. I ko lākou noho ʻana, ʻike lākou iā Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Sinclair Lewis, Eddie Cantor a me Beatrice Lily. No Mary Mazo (Bodne) mua, ʻo ka Algonquin ka ʻōlelo hope loa ma kahi odyssey i hoʻomaka ma Odessa, Ukraine, kahi ʻo ia ke keiki lua i loko o kahi ʻohana Iudaio nui i holo i nā pogrom i kona wā kamaliʻi. Ua neʻe aku ka ʻohana Mazo i Charleston, kahi i wehe ai kona makuakāne ʻo Elihu i ka mea ʻai meaʻai mua loa o ke kūlanakauhale. I ka wā e hana ana ʻo George Gershwin lāua ʻo Du Bose Heyward ma "Porgy a me Bess, he mau mea kūʻai pinepine lāua. E kūkākūkā pū lākou i ka hana ʻana o ka hōʻike ma nā ʻaina ahiahi ma ka home ʻohana Mazo. He mau makahiki ma hope mai, e hoʻomau ʻia ka moʻomeheu Mazo o ka hoʻokipa ma Algonquin. Ua kuke ʻo Mary Bodne i ka sopa moa no Laurence Olivier maʻi, a hānai ʻo ia iā Simone Signoret, nāna i kapa iā ia "kekahi o kaʻu mau hoa aloha ʻekolu."

Ua hoʻokipa ʻo Bodnes i kahi hanauna hou o ka moʻolelo a hōʻike i nā mea kaulana ʻoihana - e like me ka mea kākau ʻo John Henry Falk, i ka wā i hoʻopaʻa inoa ʻia ʻo ia a hoʻokuʻu ʻia mai Hollywood. Ua hauʻoli nui ʻo Alan Jay Lerner lāua ʻo Frederick Loewe i ka hana ʻana i kahi mele hou i hoʻopiʻi ai nā malihini ʻē aʻe: ʻo ka hōʻike ʻo ia ka "My Fair Lady."

Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Mr. Bodne, ka mea i make i ka makahiki 1992, e kūʻai aku ʻo ia i ka Algonquin i ka wā e pono ai ʻo ia i nā elevators lawelawe ponoʻī. Ua kūʻai aku ʻo ia ia mea ma 1987 iā Aoki Corporation, ka hui ʻo Brazilian o kahi hui Kepani nāna i hoʻokomo i nā elevators lawelawe ponoʻī ma 1991. I ka makahiki 1997, kūʻai aku ʻo Aoki i ka hōkele i ka Hui Hōkele ʻo Camberley i hoʻomaka i kahi $ 4 miliona hoʻoponopono. Ua hoʻolimalima ka pelekikena hānau Pelekania o ka hui, ʻo Ian Lloyd-Jones, i ka mea hoʻolālā kūloko ʻo Alexandra Champalimaud e hōʻano hou i nā wahi ākea me ka ʻole o ka luku ʻana i ka manaʻo a me ke ʻano o ka Algonquin mōʻaukala.

I ka makahiki 2002, ua kūʻai aku ʻo Miller Global Properties i ka hōkele a hoʻolimalima iā Destination Hotels and Resorts e hoʻokele a hoʻonui i kāna hana. No ka laʻana, ua hoʻokomo lākou i kahi ʻikepili ʻikepili i hoʻopaʻa ʻia i ka lolouila e kiʻi koke i nā makemake pilikino no ka hōʻea ʻana i nā malihini. Ma hope o ka hoʻoponopono hou ʻana he $3 miliona, ua kūʻai hou ʻia ka hōkele i ka makahiki 2005 iā HEI Hotels & Resorts, ka mea nona a me ka mea hoʻokele o 25 mau waiwai lawelawe piha. Ua hoʻomaka ʻo HEI i kahi $4.5 miliona no ka hoʻomaikaʻi ʻana i ka lobby, ka hale ʻaina a me ka cabaret ʻo Oak Room, ka Blue Bar, ka lumi papa ʻaina kaulana a me nā suites a me nā lumi hoʻokipa.

Ua koho ʻia ʻo Algonquin a New York City Historic Landmark in 1987 and National Literary landmark by the Friends of Libraries USA in 1996. ʻO ka papa inoa malihini mōʻaukala o Algonquin he Who's Who i ka moʻomeheu honua; ʻO Irving Berlin, Charlie Chaplin, William Faulkner, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Laughton, Maya Angelou, Angela Lansbury, Harpo Marx, Brendan Behan, Noel Coward, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Tom Stoppard, ma waena o nā mea he nui.

I kēia mau lā, ua hōʻike ʻia ka lumi Oak o ka hōkele iā Harry Connick, Jr., Andrea, Marcovicci, Diana Krall, Peter Cinotti, Michael Feinstein, Jane Monheit, Steve Ross, Sandy Stewart a me Bill Charlap, Barbara Carroll, Maude Maggart, Karen Akers, ma waena o nā mea ʻē aʻe.

I ka manawa i kākau ai ʻo Frank Case, ka Luna Nui mua (a me ka mea nona hope) o ka Algonquin i kāna memo. "Tales of a Wayward Inn" i ka makahiki 1938, ua noi ʻo ia i 30 mau malihini maʻamau e kākau i kā lākou mau hoʻomanaʻo. ʻO nā mea kaulana loa ʻo Jack Barrymore, Rex Beach, Louis Bromfield, Irvin S. Cobb, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, HL Mencken, Robert Nathan, Frank Sullivan, Louis Untermayer, Henrik Willen Van Loon. Eia naʻe, ʻo ka wahine a Frank Case ʻo Bertha ka ʻōlelo hope loa, Ua kākau ʻo ia:

'Okakopa 10, 1938

Aloha Frankie,

ʻO ka leo maʻamau o ka leka iā ʻoe mai nā hoaaloha ʻaʻole ia e kapa ʻia he kīkē; ʻoiai, i ka heluhelu ʻana, noʻonoʻo wau i ka hoʻolewa kahi i kamaʻilio ʻia ai nā hoaaloha o ka mea i make me ka ʻālohilohi, piha loa, no ka mea i make a hiki i ka (ka wahine kāne make) e noho ana i waena o ka poʻe kanikau, hilinaʻi i kāna keiki ʻōpio, me ka ʻōlelo ʻana, "E Tommy, e holo i luna. ʻĀnō, e nānā a ʻike inā ʻo kou makua kāne kēlā i loko o ka pahu.

Ma ka lā 21 o Kepakemapa, 2010, ua hoʻolaha ka Hotele Algonquin i kona hui pū ʻana me ka Autograph Collection, kahi hōʻiliʻili Hotel Marriott.

ʻO Stanley Turkel ua koho ʻia ma ke ʻano he 2014 a me ka Mōʻaukala 2015 o ka Makahiki e Histories Hotel o ʻAmelika, ka papahana kūhelu o ka National Trust for History Preservation. ʻO Turel ke kūkākūkā hōkele i hoʻolaha nui ʻia ma United States. Hoʻohana ʻo ia i kāna hana kūkākūkā hōkele e lawelawe ana ma ke ʻano he loea ʻike i nā hihia e pili ana i ka hōkele, hāʻawi i ka hoʻokele waiwai a me ka kūkā kamaʻilio hōkele. Ua hōʻoia ʻia ma ke ʻano he Master Hotel Supplier Emeritus e ka Educational Institute o ka American Hotel and Lodging Association. [pale ʻia ka leka uila] 917-628-8549

ʻO kāna puke hou "Hotel Mavens Volume 3: ʻO Bob lāua ʻo Larry Tisch, Curt Strand, Ralph Hitz, Cesar Ritz, Raymond Orteig" i hoʻopuka ʻia.

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