… on the roof:
“It was New Year’s Eve of 1999 [at the Dream Palace] … Iris Mae Tango is downstairs sounding fucking great. I’m playing with some guys, and I just remember the countdown to midnight, and I walk out on the balcony—it was at the last five minutes of this century, of this millennium—and Adé was on the roof of Café Brasil, smoking a joint and surveying it all.” –Davis Rogan
… or with a garden hose:
“Adé was always out there hosing down the sidewalk and the plate glass ,and he had this long dark curly hair, and he never wore a shirt and he was really tan and his–his jeans hung off his hips just so. And I just thought he was the most beautiful creature I’ve ever saw in my whole life.” –Nita Ketner
…or on the roof, with a garden hose:
“Like when Coco lived above Café Brasil and his wife was burning candles and it burned her wedding dress down–there was a giant fire, and Adé’s on the roof, screaming with a hose, trying to put the fire out, and the firemen are like, “Come down!” And he’s cursing them, and cursing everybody, and putting out the fire.” –Tim Eskew
The blue Nile wasn’t open in 1999
good catch, thank you!! Deleted. (And seamlessly, because it was my addition in the first place, not an error on the speaker’s part.) I copy/pasted that line from a writing workshop essay I’d included it in a while back – I think I was either simplfying a reference to the Blue Nile building for the purposes of the class or it was just a typo, but either way, definitely needed to be corrected!
I just went back to the original transcript, and Rogan at first calls the place Cafe Istanbul then says no, he thinks it was back to being the Dream Palace by that point. I have to do some digging and confirm before I add in another parenthetical, unless you know?