The Oscar awarded to producer Buddy Adler for the film From Here to Eternity sits in a restaurant checkroom during a party after the 26th Academy Awards on March 20123, 1954.
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In European public places, a garderobe denotes a cloakroom, wardrobe, alcove, or armoire used to temporarily store the coats and other possessions of visitors. In Danish, Dutch, Estonian, German, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian, the word can mean a cloakroom. In Polish, it means "wardrobe" and in Latvian, it means "checkroom".
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Materials distinguish the interior, with exposed unpainted concrete visibly dominating. The floors and stairways are of polished terrazzo, the walls and ceilings of exposed unpolished concrete. The ground floor accommodates foyer, checkroom, cashier’s desk, and catalogue sales, although most of its almost 500 m2 is used as a multifunctional exhibiting space for KUB Arena projects. Aside from its etched glass outer walls, three differently positioned concrete wall-slabs are visible on the ground floor.
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Ottawa station waiting area, 2017 The station is staffed and offers ticket sales, checked baggage and checkroom service, bicycle box service, an ATM, a cafe/restaurant, vending machines, wifi (in the station and business lounge), telephones and washrooms. A Via Rail business lounge is located in the southeast corner of the station, adjacent to the tracks. Services include a business centre with computers and a selection of magazines, free newspapers and non-alcoholic beverages. Access is restricted to business class travellers for a maximum of two hours.
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One of his publishers, Carcanet Press, reports that, prior to his professional teaching career, Rehder "worked as a checkroom attendant, private dining-room waiter, painter, busboy, gardener, picked apples, polished silver, [...] and [taught] ice-skating in a nursery school." He taught English composition at Princeton University. He taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Stirling in Scotland, before finding a position at the University of Fribourg in 1985. He was a visiting professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton.
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Katchor has written several works of musical theater, including The Rosenbach Company (a tragi-comedy about the life and times of Abe Rosenbach, the preeminent rare-book dealer of the 20th century); The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower, an absurdist romance about the chemical emissions and addictive soft-drinks of a ruined tropical factory-island; A Checkroom Romance, about the culture and architecture of coat-checkrooms, and Up From the Stacks, about a page working the stacks of the New York Public Library in 1975. All feature music by Mark Mulcahy.
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March 7, 2016. Accessed June 17, 2017 He has played in numerous other bands, such as Pedro the Lion and The Mammals. He has been part of the live band for performances of numerous "Picture-Stories" created by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy, including The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, The Friends of Dr. Rushower, A Checkroom Romance and Up from the Stacks. Maiuri also co-composed the music to Jason Mazzotta's 2015 short film The Century of Love, Part I. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (as a member of the Young@Heart Chorus band), Fresh Air (with Mark Mulcahy), and Mountain Stage (with Mark Mulcahy and The Mammals).
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A 1928 postcard of the ballroom The Savoy Ballroom in Chicago, United States was opened on Thanksgiving Eve, November 23, 1927 at 4733 South Parkway. The Savoy was heavily funded and its size was unprecedented on the South Side of Chicago with elaborate decor, a triple subfloor, and a checkroom that could accommodate 6000 hats and coats. Originally featuring primarily Jazz artists, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, the Savoy also hosted other activities, such as boxing, figure skating, and basketball exhibitions featuring the Savoy Big Five, who would later change their name to the Harlem Globetrotters. The interior of the ballroom in 1941, with the band playing From 1927 until 1940, there was continuous music supplied by two bands per night.
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