Friday, November 28, 2008

peeler guy



from http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/05/grafter200605?currentPage=all

The Gentleman Grafter

By night, Joe Ades dines with his fourth wife at exclusive restaurants, sips Veuve Clicquot at the Pierre, and goes home to a three-bedroom Park Avenue apartment. By day, he is something else altogether. At 72, the “peeler guy” in the Turnbull & Asser shirts is a New York legend.

by Howard Kaplan May 2006

In the early 90s a man named Joe Ades began showing up in the bar at the Pierre, Manhattan’s famously posh hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 61st Street. Joe liked the crowd at the CafĂ© Pierre, but the real draw for him was Kathleen Landis, the dimpled, piano-playing house chanteuse who still entertains there five nights a week. Joe was a five-nights-a-week man as well, always seated at the same round table with a front view of the baby grand and a back view of Landis. He drank only champagne, and never alone. His usual brand was Veuve Clicquot. On most nights he casually ordered a bottle, which always appeared with two champagne glasses—one for himself, the other for Landis.

1 comment:

k2h said...

adminitatly, the peeler dude is cool. more pictures and video here.

it so cool the common working class can be successful. i love his hard work, passion for avoiding the cops and just staying positive. lots of lessons to learn from that guy.

so nerdys not to cluttered, i'm paring the article down.