{"id":14346,"date":"2013-11-29T04:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2013-11-29T04:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T04:28:47","slug":"apollo-theatre-sign-hotel-theresa-harlem-nyc-uptown-correspondent-iman-r-abdulfattah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2013\/11\/29\/apollo-theatre-sign-hotel-theresa-harlem-nyc-uptown-correspondent-iman-r-abdulfattah\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo Theatre Sign &#8211; Hotel Theresa &#8211; Harlem, NYC &#8211; Uptown Correspondent, Iman R. Abdulfattah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/guests\/iman-r-abdulfattah\/iman-r-abdulfattah-apollo.jpg?resize=580%2C435\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Iman R. Abdulfattah<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2026.the Apollo probably exerted a greater influence upon popular culture than any other entertainment venue in the world. For blacks it was the most important cultural institution\u2013not just the greatest black theatre, but a special place to come of age emotionally, professionally, socially, and politically.\u00a0<strong>Ted Fox, \u201cShowtime at the Apollo<\/strong>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hotel Theresa: the Waldorf of Harlem &#8211; Trivia-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Fidel Castro and his staff came to New York in 1960 when he was to address the United Nations.\u00a0 They first checked in to the Shelburne Hotel at Lexington Avenue and 37th Street but moved to the Hotel Theresa when the Shelburne demanded $10,000 for alleged damage that included cooking chickens in their rooms.\u00a0 The Theresa was the beneficiary of the worldwide publicity when Nikita Khrushchev, the premier of the Soviet Union; Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India; and Malcom X, all visited Castro there.\u00a0 Castro\u2019s entourage rented eighty rooms for a total of $800 per day. &#8211; <\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famoushotels.org\/article\/971\" target=\"_blank\">Famous Hotels dot<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.famoushotels.org\/article\/971\" target=\"_blank\"> org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apollotheater.org\/about\/history\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo Theatre History<\/a> &#8211; Official Website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026.the Apollo probably exerted a greater influence upon popular culture than any other entertainment venue in the world. For blacks it was the most important cultural institution\u2013not just the greatest black theatre, but a special place to come of age emotionally, professionally, socially, and politically.\u00a0Ted Fox, \u201cShowtime at the Apollo\u201d Hotel Theresa: the Waldorf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643,710,763,2259,1070,1504,2257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-harlem","category-hotels","category-iman-r-abdulfattah","category-neons","category-theatres","category-uptown-correspondent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-3Jo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}