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what's your name?
i'm martin tickman
and what is your position here?
front office manager
the name of this stablishment is.?
this is the edgewater inn
in seattle
washington. can you tell me
uh
how some rock'n'roll groups have taken advantage of this unique situation?
they've taken advantage in different ways
and we do encourage
uh
and advertise that you can fish from your room and we are glad to have our guests fish from 'em
do you supply them with fishing equipment?
no
but we have a shop in the hotel that does rent the equipment as well as bait
what sort of bait do they usually use?
uh
it's a preserved minnow of some variety
i don't know exactly what the fish is
well
what do they do after they fish from the window?
well
rock'n'roll bands and other guests as well often catch shark and squid and octopus and usually we
it lands up either in the bath tub or dribbled on the floor on the way to the bath tub
mm-mmh. but it's not reserved to
uh
to any rock'n'roll bands
i mean
other guests do it too
mm-mmh
but how frequently do you find squids and sharks and octopuses in the bath tubs of the rooms here at the hotel?
after almost any good weekend of pretty heavy occupancy
say like over half the house filled
if you have over the. way
way. over half house filled you'd find one
say?
yeah
say
one or something like that
so how often would you say that is each week? twice a week you'd find a.?
well
i would
i don't know that i would say that it would average to anything like that
you may find on four or five rooms with fish from various places
you know
around. but there's not much you can do with the shark after you've caught him
you know
some of these things are pretty big
what would you imagine is done with these
uh
sharks after they've been caught before they are left
uh
for you to be cleaned up?
sometimes the guest calls the houseman or housekeeper to haul it away because there's nothing that they can do with it
yeah
well. have you ever heard of any other things that were done with them before they were hauled away?
yes
a lot of
some people like to
uh
perform vivisection on 'em
or something like that. occasionally you find that little bit of mess. yeah
i'll say that the
the
the blood on the carpet" syndrome is rather