#1 2019-10-01 07:05:17
Once upon a time, 50 years ago, I was this hotel's one and only bellhop. I also worked in the kitchen. The staff got free food and lodging, on site. It now appears 4 times its original size.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marthas-v … n-you-need
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#2 2019-10-01 09:53:15
Looks real nice, what little they showed. I assume this is for the Hoi polloi, and they're not expecting any of the beautiful people to stay there.
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#3 2019-10-01 10:37:07
Baywolfe wrote:
Looks real nice, what little they showed. I assume this is for the Hoi polloi, and they're not expecting any of the beautiful people to stay there.
The beautiful people own their own homes there or vacation on Nantucket or remoter parts of the Cape.
Tidal waves of money washed over Martha's Vineyard followed the release of Jaws and destroyed it, to my mind. I still see the shark stalking boat at the center of that film once a week, on average. Belongs to a friend, whose dad built it. In dry dock, it still takes my breath away.
My sister has a framed Bill of Sale dating to the 1850s for all of what would become Oak Bluffs. Knowing my family, we couldna owned it long.
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#4 2019-10-01 11:55:20
Even if it is a Potemkin hotel for the uber rich to pretend to be Islanders, it's nice to see a place that understands a hotel should feel homey and not be super-optimized for revenue generation and sterilized into a thin veneer of class that efficiently insures that no guests ever interact.
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#5 2019-10-01 13:12:19
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they would tell any "influencers" to fuck right off. Rocking chairs on front porch says Cracker Barrel not Instagram.
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#6 2019-10-01 14:16:24
AI optimized no vacancy.
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#7 2019-10-08 15:31:26
Baywolfe wrote:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they would tell any "influencers" to fuck right off. Rocking chairs on front porch says Cracker Barrel not Instagram.
Never underestimate the subtle mocking of the pretend-young trying to be ironic.
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#8 2019-10-09 11:56:47
I spent a little time on MV recently. My impression is that the really rich do not frequent or even gather in any of the public establishments or hotels. There is a lot of land there for an island. It is all private estates, and all run on the down low with their servants as compared to the Hamptons or Nantucket.
Unlike the heated do or die scene in the Hamptons, in Nantucket they have rebuilt what was a village into a fairy tale place where they can stroll in public, partake the shops and rub shoulders with their own kind. Pretend they are normal people on the street. In MV they are under the radar, the towns are kitsch for the tourists and bourgeois minor millionaires. It appears even the rich don't make the scene there.
On the other hand MV now has the largest collection of upper middle class black people I have seen outside Atlanta.
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