What's the deal here? I know times were tough for the stuggling dancer in those days. But all the multicultural oldies sitting around in their lawn chairs watching Tony strut back and forth with a hand-held radio pressed to his ear was hilarious.
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Looks like a poor residence hotel common in the crap parts of cities. Cheap and really bad part of town.
shareSouth Beach hotels that are now going for millions were just like the hotel in Staying Alive back in the 60's and 70's, and just like the scene in Staying Alive with all the old people sitting around doing nothing to past the time, all the old hotels in South Beach had all the seniors sitting around in the front of the hotels sitting in old beach chairs staring into nowhere all day waiting to die, very depressing area for a long time, and then around 1983 these hotels were renovated and they starting calling the hotels art deco and the rest is history.
shareBack in the day those types of transient residences/hotels you would pay daily/weekly and 'hourly' so yeah kind of nasty even for a Brooklyn boy looking to 'make it'
"I'll have a steak sandwich...and a steak sandwich"
Those types of places where called flophouses. They offer very cheap lodging.
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