Red Phantom
Red Phantom
A Quick Tour Of Paris - North Central Paris
North-central Paris consists of four bustling arrondissements, the ninth to the twelfth. We start in the ninth and work our way east. The Olympia is Paris's oldest music hall and one of the best known on earth. Famous Olympia performers include Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, and Jeff Buckley. The nearby mid-Nineteenth Century Folies Bergere has hosted the singer-dancer Josephine Baker and Maurice Chevalier. The Neo-Baroque Paris Opera seats 2200 opera fans; its stage accommodates 450 artists. Visit this splendid building with its statues and busts of famous composers. It inspired the French novel The Phantom of the Opera and the famous Broadway musical. Department store fans will appreciate the Nineteenth Century Galeries Lafayette with its beautiful Art Nouveau staircases. Down the street is the Printemps with a great Art Deco stained-glass cupola.
Pigalle centers around Place Pigalle that strides the ninth and the eighteenth districts. Largely a red-light district its famous nightclubs include the Moulin Rouge with an imitation red windmill on the roof and a turn-of-the-century decor. This club inspired 1952 and 2001 movies, both nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. The area attracted world-famous artists including Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, and van Gogh.
The tenth arrondissement has recently become trendy. Start your tour at the three-mile long Canal Saint-Martin built for Napoleon Bonaparte. This canal starred in the 1938 movie Hotel du Nord and the 2001 movie Amelie. The nearby streets are car-free for parts of Saturday and all day Sunday. The Gare de l'Est (East Station) is one of Paris's largest and oldest railway stations. It's a magnificent building with lovely artwork. The Gare du Nord (North Station) is the busiest station in Europe, and has appeared in several French and American movies.
The eleventh arrondissement has become bohemian and trendy with a lot of nightlife. It is home to many restaurants, cafes, boutiques, and galleries. The Winter Circus was built over 150 years ago. This unique twenty-sided building served as a circus, a concert hall and an early Parisian cinema. It has been featured in a famous Seurat painting, a celebrated Avedon fashion photograph, and the 1950s movie "Trapeze".
The twelfth arrondissement completes our short tour. The Bastille, built to defend Paris, became a prison mostly for political prisoners. On July 14, 1789 it contained only seven inmates. A nearby park displays one tower's. The Bastille square often hosts political demonstrations, and the area hums at night. The Bastille Opera was designed to replace the old Paris Opera but evidently Paris can support two (actually more) opera houses.
The Promenade Plantee is a long elevated park built over an abandoned railway viaduct. It includes pedestrian and cyclist routes and arcades. The Paris-Bercy All Sports Palace hosts many sports and pop concerts seating up to eighteen thousand spectators.
The Vincennes Woods is an English-garden type park almost three times as big as New York's Central Park. Once a royal hunting preserve, it became public in 1860. Don't miss the Chateau de Vincennes where the famous spy Mata-Hari was executed and served as the military headquarters for the unsuccessful defense of France against the German invasion of 1940. The Bois de Vincennes is also home to a small zoo and four lakes.
About the Author
Levi Reiss authored ten computer and Internet books, but would rather drink fine French, German, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods. He loves teaching computer classes at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his Italian travel, wine, and food website www.travelitalytravel.com and his global wine website www.theworldwidewine.com featuring a weekly review of $10 wines.
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The Psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V
It is rumored that back in 1967 an elderly lady in London was observed beating on a Rolls-Royce with her umbrella while shouting, "You swine, you swine, how dare you do this to a Rolls-Royce?" Although one might assume she would have been arrested and the owner would have pressed charges, this never happened. The owner only laughed.
The owner in question was John Lennon, of Beatle fame. Lennon purchased a Phantom V that had been manufactured by the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited, in Crewe, Cheshire, England. The chassis was mounted with a limousine body manufactured by Mulltner Park Ward. It was finished in Valentines Black. The license plate number was FBJ111C. The car was 19 feet long and weighed three tons.
Lennon immediately began to make alterations to the vehicle. First he installed a radio-telephone, a stereo system, a Sony television set and a refrigerator. Then he had the back seat modified so it could be converted to a bed.
In 1966, when John had to go to Spain to film "How I Won the War," he had both his car and chauffeur sent over. At that time the car, including all the metal trim, had been repainted a matte black.
However, John became bored with the black and in 1967 visited J.P. Fallon Ltd. a coachworks company housed in Chertsey, Surrey, England. Here he discussed idea of repainting the car psychedelic.
Fallon agreed to this and hired a Dutch team of Gypsy artists, known as The Fool, to do the job.
They painted the car a bright yellow overall and then designed and painted a pattern of scroll and flowers in green, blue, orange and red over the yellow background. John paid 2,000 British pounds for the work.
The Beatles then used the Phantom V from 1966 to 1969. In 1970, John and Yoko Ono shipped the car to the United States however they seldom used it in the United States. Various rock stars such as the Rolling Stones, the Moody Blues and Bob Dylan borrowed it. Finally it was placed in storage in New York City.
But when John and Yoko got into trouble with the US Internal Revenue in 1977, they donated the car to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, in New York City, and received a $225,000 tax credit.
The Museum put it on public display for about four months but had to return it to storage, as they could not afford the insurance coverage for public viewing.
Finally, in 1985 Cooper-Hewitt sold the car through an auction for $2,299,000 to Mr. Jim Pattison's Ripley International Inc., for exhibition at Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" museum.
In 1986, Mr. Pattison, who was chairman of the Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, arranged to have the car displayed at Expo.
In 1987, it was presented as a gift to Her Majesty in Right of the Province of British Columbia and placed on exhibit at the Transportation Museum of British Columbia at Cloverdale.
It was then sent to the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, British Columbia for occasional display.
On March 9, 1996 it was moved to The National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa. Here it was displayed with a sculpture of John as a passenger, done by Joanne Sullivan.
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