Hotel Pennsylvania

"Boo-ba-dub boo-ba-dub booo booo" goes the tune "Pennsylvania 6-5000" by Glenn Miller. I'm not a huge fan of 1940s music, but this one is fine tune. Miller used to play in the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York, and that was their phone number. Maybe he was stuck for a name. The hotel played on the success of the tune, claimed to have the oldest telephone number in New York, and played the song if you rang them. I knew someone who stayed there once, and I thought that if I were ever in New York that's where I'd go, just so I could say that I had been. But apparently Covid closed it, and it's now been pulled down. I left it too long.

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