45. Not Dunne Yet | Down at the New Amsterdam
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this Bonus Dunne Day Episode, Alicia takes you first to the West Coast to explore San Francisco's New Amsterdam, forever preserved in the song Mr. Jones by the Counting Crows. Then, we head to the East Coast - New York City - where we talk about the building, history, and the ghosts, too, of the other New Amsterdam.
Get ready for a cross-continent journey spanning more than a century. Highlights include the Ziegfeld Follies, The Merry Widow Hat Skirmish, Kung Fu Movies, a Times Square renovation, and some of the biggest Disney musicals of recent decades.
It is a whole spiderweb today that takes us from 1903 to the present day.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | That's audible.co.ukesl-wondery. Welcome to Done and Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn. |
| 0:34.6 | And yeah, we're starting a little different today welcome to a double |
| 0:39.0 | done day because I am not done yet talking about the new Amsterdam theater olive Thomas's story |
| 0:46.6 | naturally leads me to the new Amsterdam theater and so much in research never makes it to the story |
| 0:53.9 | hence the emergency not done yet talking about the New Amsterdam Theater episode you're getting right now. |
| 1:01.8 | Olive Thomas's New Amsterdam Theater is the one in New York City. And I like to clarify that as a Gen X kid. |
| 1:11.0 | Olive's New Amsterdam is not the building that Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows are paying homage to in their song, Mr. Jones. |
| 1:21.2 | Remember Mr. Jones from the album August and Everything After? |
| 1:24.9 | If you lived in 1994, you couldn't escape it. Hence, let's talk about this |
| 1:30.3 | particular New Amsterdam. The Counting Crows in the New Amsterdam they are singing about is located |
| 1:35.8 | on the West Coast in San Francisco. There was a bar there for a long time called the New Amsterdam. |
| 1:41.3 | It was across the street from Bimbo's 365 Club. The New Amsterdam |
| 1:46.8 | theater was the location that gave inspiration to Adam Duritz for the song Mr. Jones and |
| 1:53.7 | Adam Duritz tells about it this way on VH1 storytellers. It's really a song about my friend Marty and I. We went out one night to watch his dad |
| 2:03.0 | play. His dad was a flamenco guitar player who lived in Spain, and he was in San Francisco in the |
| 2:09.4 | mission playing with his old flamenco troupe. And after a gig, we all went to this bar called the |
| 2:14.5 | New Amsterdam and San Francisco on Columbus, and we got completely drunk. |
| 2:19.0 | Marty and I sat in the bar staring at these two girls, wishing there was some way we could go talk to |
| 2:24.2 | them, but we were too shy. We kept joking with each other that if we were big rock stars, |
| 2:29.3 | instead of such loser, low-budget musicians, this would be easy. I went home that night and wrote a song about it. |
| 2:36.7 | The other added bit that is the spider web you may want to know about this song is that |
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