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Dylan greets the Beatles at the Delmonico Hotel - August 28, 1964 You can click twice on the photos to fully expand them. Then click the left arrow (back page) to get back. This is a photo of Bob Dylan and his entougrage across the street from the Delmonico Hotel, on Park Ave. and 59th Street, where the Beatles were staying when they came to New York City in 1964. From left to right the people are: Victor Maymudes (obscured, Dylan's personal assistant), Neil Aspinall (close, front; the Beatle's road manager), Al Aronowitz (a New York CIty journalist and friend of Dylan's) and Bob Dylan, with cigarette in hand. Dylan was on his way to visit the Beatles. During the visit, Dylan reportedly "turned on" one or more of the Beatles to marijuana, while later falling to sleep in the Beatles suite.
(photo by Henry Grossman / Daily Mirror via Getty Images) Here's the picture lighter, so you can see the background building.
This is how artificial intelligence describes the night, as taken from different souces: Bob Dylan famously visited The Beatles at the Delmonico Hotel in New York City on Friday, August 28, 1964. What happened during the visit: Location:The Beatles were staying at the Delmonico Hotel (Park Avenue and East 59th Street) during their first full U.S. tour. They stayed August 28th-29th, 1964. While there they gave a concert at Forest Hills, an outdoor concert venue in Queens. Dylan's Arrival:Dylan was connected to the band by their journalist friend Al Aronowitz. He set up a meeting at their hotel. Bob Dylan drove drown from his home in Woodstock (2 hours away) with his road manager Victor Maymudes to meet them. Marijuana Moment: Dylan offered them marijuana, which, according to legend, was the first time The Beatles smoked pot (at least together, and definitely the first time for some of them - Ringo in particular). Other sources say had tried pot while playing in the clubs in the rough-and-tumble entertainment zone of Hamburg known as the Reeperbahn. Mix-Up: Reportedly, Dylan was surprised they hadn't smoked before. He assumed they did based on a misinterpretation of the lyric "I get high" in "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (the actual lyric is "I can't hide"). Who Got High: Ringo smoked first, followed by the others. They laughed a lot, joked around, and ate snacks like crazy - particularly ordering a ton of room service. Dylan Falling Asleep: At some point later in the evening, after smoking and hanging out, Dylan allegedly lay down and passed out or fell asleep for a while, which some of The Beatles found amusing. This night is often cited as a turning point for The Beatles, especially in terms of their lyrical development and their increasing embrace of counterculture influences. In this I added the original building that was behind Dylan in 1964.
This is a slight variation on that, with the street darkened.
Here's that colorized. (using img2go.com)
In this one I put Dylan from 1964 in front of the corner (Park Ave. and 59th St.) as it is today The view is south down the east side of Park Avenue. If you enlarge the image you can see the MetLife building at 44th Street in the distant background.
Here's what the corner looks like in modern day.
This is the building at 487 Park Avenue that was in the background of the Dylan photo. It's at the southeast corner of Park Avenue. At the time the Hoffman Motor Car Company was in the ground level.
For you history buffs, the building actually looked like this when it was built. They enlarged the windows when they put in the automobile dealership.
This is a picture of the Delmonico Hotel from about 30 years ago. The Beatles were staying on the 7th floor.
Here is a picture of the former Delmonico Hotel taken in present day. The building is now condominiums. The address is 502 Park Avenue at the southwest corner of 59th Street.
Beatles fans crowd the northwest corner of 59th St. and Park Avenue which is right across the street from where the Beatles were staying at the Delmonico Hotel.
(photo via Getty Images) This photo shows the same building in the background in both the fans photo and the Dylan photo.
Police on horseback keep back the crowd looking for the Beatles across the street.
Exuberant fans shout out to their favorite Beatle.
Fans cheering to the Beatles across the street at the Delmonico hotel. The fans are at the northeast corner of 59th Street and Park Avenue in the same spot where Dylan would be photographed later.
This is a modern day photo of the building with the curved facade at the corner that the Beatles fans are waving from. The address is 505 Park Avenue at 59th Street.
This (below) is the photographer Henry Grossman reminising about the night he took the photo of Dylan at the streetcorner. (click on it to ENLARGE to read more easily)
Here's a diagram showing where Dylan was standg in the photo and where the Beatles were staying inside the Delmonico Hotel.
Here's the PopSpot of the photo again. Marie Fotini did a lot of the research for this PopSpot. Thank you, Marie. To see more PopSpots at the PopSpots main page, click here.
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