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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
Do you have any links about the current bar, Nadeau? I just did a Google search and was unable to find anything at all, regardless of which search terms I tried.
I can't recall exactly when I revisited the Knickerbocker (maybe around 2005 or so?), but when I walked in there was no bar (or anything even remotely similar) to be found.
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Last night I was watching a youtube video where a couple gentlemen, with video camera in hand, who are Elvis enthusiasts, came to visit the Knickerbocker to look at where some of the Elvis photoshoot took place when he stayed there in 1956. They go into the lobby and some guy that works there ushers them out again, but...he happens to be an Elvis fan, too, and did that for show, inviting them to come back and he gives a tour, of sorts, to them.
In the videos they look for locations of where the Elvis pictures were taken, including up on the roof, and where he stayed. (They show the historic photos and try to match them.) They also talk about other things, some I mentioned here:
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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
The Knickerbocker Hotel is where Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio often met in the hotel bar. Elvis Presley stayed at the hotel (Room 1016) while making his first film, Love Me Tender (1956) and a famous photoshoot of him was done there. For thirty years, it was the residence of actor William Frawley. Laurel and Hardy stayed in room 205, where they were surprised by the crew for an episode of This is Your Life, and Graham Nash lived there in 1968.
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The guy who works there also lives there and takes him into his room at one point. Lots of interesting stuff. There's panoramas from the present day roof top, both day and night and I think a little drone footage, too.
All of the videos were posted in Dec. of 2019, which I was assuming when they were shot, but it just occurred to me that the Capitol Records building did not have their Christmas tree up on their rooftop, so it had to have been before December sometime.
It's in 3 parts, about 45 minute total:
Elvis Presley Knickerbocker Hotel 1956 Love Me Tender Hollywood The Spa Guy Part #1 of 3 (14:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9DqP9XxBo
Elvis Presley Knickerbocker Hotel 1956 Love Me Tender Hollywood The Spa Guy Part #2 of 3 (16:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8kw8ED7i4
Elvis Presley Knickerbocker Hotel 1956 Love Me Tender Hollywood The Spa Guy Part #3 of 3 (13:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgBhAkvY5o
And a follow up that corrects a couple informative things:
Elvis Presley Why Kicked out of Knickerbocker Hotel Hollywood The Spa Guy
(13:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxRJcV3QCUU