Comments on: One Last Look at the Martinque Hotel

By: BandleaderatTheHotelMartinique

BandleaderatTheHotelMartinique — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:43:16 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skayViMNyfs

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:05:38 +0000

Good question on the name Duck! Maybe Doug or I will get to do some archives digging to find out.

By: Pete Brzycki

Pete Brzycki — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:46:25 +0000

BTW, a demolition permit doesn’t necessarily mean they plan to scrape the entire structure.

It could be they plan to just pull down the parts of the building that can’t be saved.

That’s probably just hopeful thinking but it is a possibility.

By: Larry OKC

Larry OKC — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:18:28 +0000

Guys, don’t stop now..this is all very entertaining!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:45:16 +0000

The video is from Oct 1st.

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:33:44 +0000

Well this attention was embarrassing. But thanks for the
Dr. Seuss & the funny things.

Loved the video, the sounds in the background,the birds, the sign
“15 min Loading and Unloading Only.” You could almost hear
an ocean and see Ernest Hemingway walking by one way and
a vespa with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck going the other.

I wonder what the origin of the name was? The Hotel Martinique sounds very French. Not very Oklahoma. It would
be a good name for a story, something like “The Last Dance at the Hotel Martinique.”

—–In the corner, securely planted behind a frond, a woman reads
Wide Sargasso Sea. She would have been reading Jane Eyre,
but erred and left it at home. The celebrities, eating and dancing, included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Groucho Marx, Bugs Bunny and a penguin named Playboy, The Beach Boys, Pierce Brosnan, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp, and pirates. Lots of pirates. Lots. The lights dim as Penelope takes the stage to sing her rendition of “The Last Time You Left Me We Were on Martinique,” Groucho & penguin waltz by, Groucho explaining to the penguin just EXACTLY what a viaduct is.—–

Penguins are known for being VERY sentimental and they
embarrass VERY easily.
Sometimes they wander off and you don’t hear from them for a while. And Sometimes they miss people terribly.
They’re just like that. They’re weird.

But. They like listening to people talk about viaducts,
bridges, street lights and lampposts. Bridges. Beau. Jeff. Lloyd. And Concrete. And things they don’t really understand. And signs. They’re VERY big on signs.

Signing off,
GenghisKDuck

By: Doug Loudenback

Doug Loudenback — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:09:12 +0000

Pete, it was still standing when I drove by around 11 am on October 1. I’ve not been back since.

By: Doug Loudenback

Doug Loudenback — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:05:46 +0000

Maybe moderated by PD Eastman.

Dog. Big dog. Little dog.
Hello. Hello. Do you like my hat? No I do not like it. Goodbye. Goodbye.
Two big dogs going up. A little dog going down.
The dogs are all going around, around, and around. Go around again!
Hello again. And now do you like my hat? I do! What a hat! I like it. I like that party hat.
Goodbye. Goodbye.

By: Pete Brzycki

Pete Brzycki — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:38:34 +0000

Looking at the City of OKC website, you’ll see the demolition permit was issued the same day it was requested, 9/23/11.

Does anyone know if the demolition has taken place? Often, it happens the same day of issuance.

By: david ball

david ball — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:36:23 +0000

i think i love ghengis. and his duck, too.