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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
The Hotel Barbizon at 6th and Westlake.
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very gritty.
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Her heyday has truly passed and now she sits in the hard sunlight looking for all the world like a glass of stale beer and a short, thick Chesterfield.
"Out of the apartment houses come women who should be young but have faces like stale beer; men with pulled-down hats and quick eyes that look the street over behind the cupped hand that shields the match flame; worn intellectuals with cigarette coughs and no money in the bank; fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cokies and coke peddlers; people who look like nothing in particular and know it, and once in a while even men that actually go to work. But they come out early, when the wide cracked sidewalks are empty and still have dew on them"
Raymond Chandler, The High Window