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The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by urbandw311er »

happyopossum wrote: post #78
dangus wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't get the impression that the article was a celebration of the man, it was more like a deep dive into the oddity of the whole thing. I think you're assigning an agenda where there is none. The author isn't trying to glorify the guy. The story is an interesting story because the circumstances are so unusual. I realize the scale of wealth skewed far upward from the typical working class person, but I will also p…

He had a long term lease on a cabana - that wasn’t cheap. Also ate lunch and bought drinks there. Not saying this was out of reach for anyone, but the cabana alone probably would have been for the vast majority of people.

If you read the piece he was gifted the cabana

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by Aeolun »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #41

So he would just go hang out at a pool all day and avoid his wife and children? No wonder he lived to 101.

I mean, most do by going to the office instead. I’m not sure how the pool is much different in that regard.

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by reddalo »

endoblast wrote: post #77

My goodness, 42 years of sun bathing at the same latitude as Tunisia. Should he have got skin cancer or did he benefit from all the naturally produced Vitamin D?

I think he benefitted from the Vitamin D, since he died at 101.

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by snailmailstare »

Aeolun wrote: post #82
IncreasePosts wrote: post #41

So he would just go hang out at a pool all day and avoid his wife and children? No wonder he lived to 101.

I mean, most do by going to the office instead. I’m not sure how the pool is much different in that regard.

Any man can avoid one boss, the trick is avoiding both.

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by d-sky »

poglet wrote: post #79
punnerud wrote: post #75

Article summary: “ Irving V. Link spent 42 years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool, where his meticulous daily routine of breakfast, sunbathing, and gin rummy became legendary. He was admired by hotel staff and Hollywood figures alike, symbolizing the timeless charm of a bygone era in Los Angeles. His life was deeply intertwined with the hotel’s evolution, reflecting the glamour of old Hollywood and the shifting dynami…

Thanks I was just thinking I wish Firefox had a 1 paragraph summary button next to the reader button. Then I came to comments and saw this.

https://orbitbymozilla.com/

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by buildsjets »

jacekm wrote: post #70
1024core wrote: post #9

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Have you seen the egg prices lately...? ;-)

I am curious how much they are in your country? In Poland one egg costs about $0.30

About $0.60 currently in the USA, which is quadruple what they were at this time last year. Supposedly this is mostly because many egg suppliers had to cull their flocks due to the current H5N1 bird flu. But there is also concern that egg prices have been rising in general in the long term due to industry consolidation and monopolization.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/egg-prices-bird-...

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by B1FF_PSUVM »

permo-w wrote: post #71
esafak wrote: post #54

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Who knows, nutritional scientist might get it right one day :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=485Em2JF34M

I do think that with the loosening of corporate control on mass media, we are slowly iterating towards reasonable dietary advice

Hope springs eternal

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by realfeel78 »

d-sky wrote: post #85
poglet wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks I was just thinking I wish Firefox had a 1 paragraph summary button next to the reader button. Then I came to comments and saw this.

https://orbitbymozilla.com/

It's built into Safari now too.

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by tkgally »

codetrotter wrote: post #47
1024core wrote: post #17

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I wonder how much of the HN readership was not even born then....?

Probably a decent number. I first heard of HN around 2010 when I was in university. I assume that plenty of university students find their way to HN still. And that many of them will have been born around the mid-2000’s. I only barely make the cut myself to having been born a few years before 1993.

One of the nice things about HN is the wide age range of the participants. I have read interesting and thoughtful comments from people who said they were high school students all the way through to people a decade or more older than me (I'm sixty-seven).

Re: The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)

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Post by sureglymop »

dang wrote: post #73
dbl000 wrote: post #69

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Can confirm. Recent graduate who found HN during my second year at university.

That's good! Do your friends know about / use HN? (Sorry for conscripting you as a guinea pig but it's hard to get this kind of info!)

Person born in 2000 here. My friends and colleagues at university generally don't know about HN.

Have told a few people about it but the only person I really converted into also becoming a regular reader is my dad. It's good because now whenever we see each other we have a lot of topics and stuff to discuss that we both read about here.

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