BEg2 ch23 more refs

Wed Mar 9 10:36:40 UTC 2022

Thanks for the kind words.
BE *is* great, isn’t it?

Jermyn Street was a tangent off a tangent - the New York outlet for Edward
Green shoes is Saks.

PS Marni Nixon also appeared on an episode of Law and Order SVU, and “I
Could Have Danced all Night” is on the soundtrack on the Seinfeld episode
about the raincoats and Schindler’s List, and “Getting to Know You” in the
King of Queens episode where Doug “gets to know” his father in law better
when Carrie has to work nights.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 3:36 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> I want to Thank you from the bottom of my completist heart for all the
> research and ideas you are
> posting for this read. You are looking everything up, showing more
> richness in BE this way, which in
> earlier readings seemed less so than a couple of his.
>
> I keep marveling on the breadth of material and place observation. Among
> other things.
>
> Mark
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:05 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Edith from Yenta Expresso apprises Maxine of Windust’s inquiring after
>> her,
>> so Maxine asks, “ Nice shoes?”
>>
>>          “High three figures, Edward Greens, snakeskin, appropriately
>> enough.”
>>
>> Edward Green
>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Green_Shoes
>>
>> They have an office on Jermyn Street in London -
>>
>> https://www.hawesandcurtis.com/blog/features/jermynstreetsuntoldstoriesandsecrets
>> “Aleister Crowley (primarily known for his occult writings and teachings
>> and considered by some in the British press to be "the wickedest man in
>> the
>> world") met Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond) at the Cavendish Hotel
>> during World War 2, probably to discuss the arrival of Rudolf Hess from
>> Germany.”
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC94EFE_piccadilly-arcade-jermyn-street?guid=c65a6b43-2295-4bb4-b65c-d7e2a9b73c63
>>
>> *Notable Residents of Jermyn Street:*
>
>
>>
>> Many tailors owned or still own the houses along the street and often
>> rented out rooms to people. No. 22, Jermyn Street
>> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/No.+22,+Jermyn+Street?entry=gmail&source=g>,
>> for instance was once
>> owned by Italian silk merchant Cesare Salvucci and a military tailor who
>> rented rooms out to people such as the banker Theodore Rothschild.
>>
>> The Duke of Marlborough lived there when he was Colonel Churchill, as
>> did Isaac Newton (at No. 88, from 1696-1700; he then moved next door to
>> No.
>> 87, from 1700 to 1709, during which time he worked as Warden of the Mint),
>> the mid-18th century highwayman and apothecary William Plunkett,
>> the Duchess of Richmond, the Countess of Northumberland and the artist
>> John
>> Keyse Sherwin (in whose rooms in 1782 the actress Sarah Siddons sat for
>> him
>> for her portrait as "Euphrasia).
>>
>> The Gun Tavern was one of the great resorts for foreigners of
>> revolutionary
>> tastes during the end of the 18th century, whilst Grenier's Hotel was
>> patronised by French refugees. At the Brunswick Hotel, Louis Napoleon took
>> up his residence under the assumed name of Count D'Arenberg on his escape
>> from captivity in the fortress of Ham. Twentieth-century residents
>> included
>> the 1930s 'big band' singer Al Bowlly (killed in his flat on the street by
>> a parachute mine during the Blitz in 1941).
>>
>> Though he did not live there, a statue of the dandy Beau Brummell stands
>> on
>> Jermyn Street at its junction with Piccadilly Arcade, as embodying its
>> elegant clothing values. Aleister Crowley lived in No. 93 during the
>> Second
>> World War up until 1 April. It was through Crowley that Nancy
>> Cunard resided in a flat in Jermyn Street.
>>
>>
>>
>> More from Edith on Windust:
>> “You might want to be careful though, he’s problematic.”
>>
>>             “Client?”
>>
>>          “Known to the community. Don’t get me wrong, lonely is OK, it’s
>> my
>> bread and butter,
>>             I’m down with lonely, I’m down with desperate. But this guy .
>> .
>> .”
>>
>>           “Not that look, Edith please. This isn’t romantic.”
>>
>>          “I’m in the business thirty years, trust me, how romantic is it?
>> As romantic as it gets.”
>>
>>
>>          “Creeping me out here. You’re saying I should expect him back?”
>>
>>          “Don’t worry, I already gave them a heads-up at the Times,
>> they’ll
>> spell your name right.”
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> “Windust seems to think it’s a date. He is done up, otherwise
>> inexplicably,
>> in somebody’s idea of hipster gear—jeans, vintage sharkskin sport coat,
>> Purple Drank T-shirt, enough dress-code violations to get him thrown off
>> the L train.”
>>
>> Purple Drank t-shirt, there’s a bunch of designs, I’ve never seen one in
>> the wild -
>> https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000121910925.html?gatewayAdapt=Pc2Msite
>>
>>
>> Sharkskin sport coat - brick would go nicely with the purple
>>
>> https://www.menswearhouse.com/p/lauren-by-ralph-lauren-brick-sharkskin-classic-fit-sport-coat-13WP13WR06
>>
>>
>> Thrown off the L Train? Hmm - overthinking maybe but there is an L Train
>> Cafe
>> https://www.dresscodefinder.com/new-york/l-train-cafe
>> Casual dress, no restrictions
>>
>> The L train itself runs left to right from 8th St in Lower Manhattan to
>> Rockaway Parkway in Brooklyn.
>> Desultory scrolling gleaned what seemed like a lot of nasty incidents on
>> it.
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