Poor, poor, misunderstood, mistreated Glennon Travis. When he arrived at the hotel "the physical plan 
and administrative structure of the hotel were in complete dissarray," and the "public areas and shared bathrooms were inundated with drug addicts and others who did not belong at the hotel." (When did he start exactly?) Nevertheless, he heroically performed his duties, increasing the number of transient rooms from 95 to 107 by throwing artists onto the street and providing employees with uniforms so they wouldn’t slog around in their messy street clothes. In return he was "physically threatened on several occasions and spit on" by the rambunctious ingrates at the Chelsea Hotel! Despite his constant requests, nobody will pay for an electronic key system, and the loathsome David Elder "effectively lives at the hotel" at no cost and routinely interferes with operations.
This is all to be found in an affadavit sworn out by Glennon in the ongoing case of BD NY Hotels vs Chelsea 23rd St. Corp. The courts are in the process of deciding what monetary damages, if any, should be awarded to BD to compensate them for their unceremonious termination.
Glennon also tells a hilarious story about how David Bard came to the hotel looking for some NY Giants tickets that had been sent to him. Not finding them in his box, he looked on David Bernstein’s desk. Discovering this highly suspicious activity, Glennon orderd Bard to cease and desist. So Bard went and got David Elder — ostensibly in charge at this point — and they came back and proceeded to search through Bernstein’s desk together to look for the tickets. Once again, Glennon sprung on them and ordered them to stop. This embarassed Elder, who took Glennon to a public area of the hotel and "stated that he wanted to make it clear that I should remember that I work for him."
Wow, a real clash of the intellectual titans here folks. It’s like Einstein vs I don’t know, Immanuel Kant or somebody. Later that day, Madame Currie — er, rather, Marlene Krauss — called and pretended to sympathasize with Glennon saying "Elder should not have threatened you like that," and also asking him to not to tell anybody from BD about her call. — Ed Hamilton
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11 responses to “Glennon Travis Swears This on a Stack of Bibles”
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Whoa. I just witnessed David Elder’s customer service skills. Or lack thereof.
A middle-aged couple arrived to check in but they could not produce their reservation # fast enough for David Elder. He was barking at them “you don’t have a number, everybody has a number” Gee, ever heard of using the computer to find their name? Ever heard of being polite to customers?LikeLike
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Dear God, the farce gets more hilarious by the day. Glennon, Elder, Krauss and Bernstein, the keystone cops. Glennon Travis so so so does not get the Chelsea Hotel, and this affadavit reminds us once again. Electronic key cards in the home of the legendary green tagged steel key? Did he mentions those rapscallion children interfering with his Order by, gasp, playing? Glennon, dearie, find yourself a nice Marriot, and stay there. Soon, if there is any justice in this universe, David Elder will follow you. Incompetent nincompoops, all of you. By toying with the Chelsea you have rent the space-time fabric. Leave before you get sucked into a great black hole.
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But they didn’t have a number ready! Everyone must have their number ready! How can I run this big hotel if people don’t have their numbers ready!
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When will this nightmare end and the Bards return?It’s been almost a year. have these people not figured out yet that only way to run this institution is the way the Bards ran it, and the only people to do that are the bards? How much more humiliation can they take?
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mabe david will install one of the numbers dispensers like you see at the deli counter, except at the hotels front desk so he doesn’t get confused
he gets confused so easilyLikeLike
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Drug addicts in the common bathrooms? What decade does Glennon think (or secretly wish) he started working at the Hotel?
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He thinks everyone who isn’t in a suit and tie is a drug addict probably. I mean, how would he know unless they had needles sticking out of their arms. I haven’t known a serious addict at the hotel in about 7 years since Hiroya and Dee Dee died, fine human beings I might add, who make Glennon travis look like the grade school hall monitor he is. There are probably more addicts in BD Hotels. Glennon was cowering in fear of people in paint-smeared trousers who do no more than the odd glass of sherry after a painting is completed. Ignoramus. Narc. Snitch. Stick up his ass fascho. Don’t forget he’s the guy who thought he smelled marijuana and called the cops.
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Did David Bard ever find his tickets?
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Junky infested bathrooms? Seems like a crock to me. But is it possible Glennon encountered the Ghost of Huncke and — the illiterate beachbum that he is — simply didn’t recognize the old man? It could have been Hiroya’s Ghost, of course, and since Glennon claims he found the Residents’ portfolios in such terrible disarray, maybe he didn’t realize Hiroya had already ‘checked out’. Either way there aint no junkies in our bathrooms. Ghosts yes, addicts no. RRight?
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Glennon is trying to do the same thing Elder and Krauss are doing, they have to invent horror stories to justify themselves. Glennon is trying to justify his incompetence in running the Hotel Chelsea, the two minority shareholders are trying to justify their takeover. The physical plant and administrative plan were not in complete disarray. Stanley’s administration worked for a half century, and look what it produced for the residents and the culture. It was different, and miraculous.
Glennon couldn’t do the job and is now shifting responsibility elsewhere.LikeLike
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Right, Boo-Hoo, all the ghosts have been terribly upset by Stanley’s ouster and that he was replaced by little Glennon Travis just added insult to injury. Huncke and Burroughs have been very active, as have Jimi and Janis and Dee Dee and Hiroya and many others, those who were sobriety challenged during their lifetimes, and those who were not. Yes, as said, fine human beings all of them, and fine artists. Neither Glennon Travis nor David Elder, nor Marlene Krauss can hold a candle to any of them as people nor as contributors to society.
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