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I lived at the fountain blue Hotel first of all you could not get in unless you were a guest and you had to show your
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room key and then they would allow you in you'd see jewelry fabulous jewelry fabulous women
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I mean people would just gasp every president since 1954 stayed at the fountain blue and uh
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politicians that everybody fought to get to the fountain blue because it was the
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hotel and we went by Seasons every year was a new hotel and each one if you didn't stay at the hotel of this year
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you were out the fountain blue never had that distinction the fountain blue was always the number one spot to stay
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that's the Kings the two kings together I mean you don't find a picture like this very often I mean Frank Sinatra was
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one of the nicest men to me that I have ever met Elvis was as polite and as religious as possible he was more my
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age and we related more to Jo choking around and talking and so on and so forth this is Ben and Bernice Novak he
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was the owner of the fountain blue Bernice was the sweetheart of all the world I mean she was gorgeous and she
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dressed magnificently and she was charming and sweet and kind she was royalty but she
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never really reacted to the position that she held she was not a snob she was an a lovely lady
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Benji was an exact duplicate of Ben Novak and they both were very hard and very very difficult to be friendly with