{"id":306152,"date":"2017-05-01T16:40:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-manhattan-had-more-piano-bars-than-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:40:44","slug":"when-manhattan-had-more-piano-bars-than-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/when-manhattan-had-more-piano-bars-than-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"When Manhattan Had More Piano Bars Than Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-631335\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/taki-theodoracopulos\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Taki Theodoracopulos\" rel=\"author\">Taki Theodoracopulos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\">Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">May 1, 2017<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"custom-buttons custom-buttons-merged\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a2a_button_email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F05%2Ftaki-theodoracopulos%2Fmanhattan-piano-bars-immigrants%2F&amp;type=page&amp;linkname=Master+Class&amp;linknote=\" title=\"Email\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/email.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"print-page\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/themes\/lrc\/images\/icons\/print.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Print\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list\" data-a2a-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/taki-theodoracopulos\/manhattan-piano-bars-immigrants\/\" data-a2a-title=\"When Manhattan Had More Piano Bars Than Immigrants\"><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F05%2Ftaki-theodoracopulos%2Fmanhattan-piano-bars-immigrants%2F&amp;linkname=When%20Manhattan%20Had%20More%20Piano%20Bars%20Than%20Immigrants\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2017%2F05%2Ftaki-theodoracopulos%2Fmanhattan-piano-bars-immigrants%2F&amp;linkname=When%20Manhattan%20Had%20More%20Piano%20Bars%20Than%20Immigrants\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_twitter_tweet addtoany_special_service\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/taki-theodoracopulos\/manhattan-piano-bars-immigrants\/\" data-text=\"When Manhattan Had More Piano Bars Than Immigrants\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_facebook_like addtoany_special_service\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/taki-theodoracopulos\/manhattan-piano-bars-immigrants\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_button_google_plusone addtoany_special_service\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/taki-theodoracopulos\/manhattan-piano-bars-immigrants\/\"\/><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_120_16.png\" width=\"120\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n<p>Twenty-five years ago this week, Los Angeles was burning because of Rodney King\u2019s beating by the fuzz and I had my shoulder sliced open by a doctor in order to repair torn ligaments. My shoulder hurt more than Rodney\u2019s ribs, because I saw him on TV get up and gesticulate freely after being whacked rather hard by four cops. I didn\u2019t lift my arm for months. Lesson to be learned: Better to have four cops beat you than to run into an ice wall at a high speed while skiing with snow blindness.<\/p>\n<p>Forty years ago this week, there was better news: Studio 54 opened its doors, changing the Big Bagel\u2019s nighttime culture forever. Started by two friends of mine\u2014they became friends after a rocky start\u2014Studio was entered after a physical battle under the giant marquee with \u201cdeplorables\u201d who lay siege all night against those of us who were signaled to enter upon arrival. The sidewalk was a scary zoo outside Studio, the non grata ones linking arms against those welcomed by the legendary Marc Benecke, and some even spitting at people like Warhol and his entourage as the club\u2019s heavies escorted them in. I never had any problem with the BBQs\u2014Brooklyn, Bronx, and Queens crowds\u2014as I always dressed square and never expected the heaving humanity to open up \u00e0 la Red Sea to welcome me. Lesson to be learned: Act like an old-fashioned gent, never like a haughty celebrity, and the crowd will neither spit on you nor try to keep you out.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Studio was redolent of secret chambers. There were nooks and crannies and places where people openly screwed and took drugs. What amazed me was the fact that it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/05\/taki-theodoracopulos\/manhattan-piano-bars-immigrants\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Taki Theodoracopulos Taki&#8217;s Magazine May 1, 2017 Twenty-five years ago this week, Los Angeles was burning because of Rodney King\u2019s beating by the fuzz and I had my shoulder sliced open by a doctor in order to repair torn ligaments. My shoulder hurt more than Rodney\u2019s ribs, because I saw him on TV get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}