He's the best kind of rooming partner to have: he let's me nap when I have to.

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For a time, "Pinetop" lived in the same rooming house as two other piano players: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.

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From high schoolers exhibiting some "Disturbing Behavior" and vampires rooming the night in "Blade, " there's no end to the horror movie spin-offs.

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This phenomenon of show rooming has hit businesses like Best Buy hard.

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By rooming together, we figured we could save enough money to ensure that we have something left for fruity drinks and a trip to the spa.

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From the 1930s onwards Jews living in New York started to holiday in the hundreds of rooming houses and hotels that sprouted in the nearby Catskill mountains.

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Also from the duo is The Jane (113 Jane St), set in the former sailor's hotel that housed the survivors of the Titanic and more recently was a rooming house.

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"When a market's turning, lenders foreclose and sell at the bottom, " says Hall, 52, who got his start buying college rooming houses as a teenager in his native Ann Arbor, Mich.

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One especially enterprising worker, amazed at the high rents in these global cities compared with his village on Sumatra, started to rent apartments to sublet as rooming houses for his friends.

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Though the posher hotels had swimming pools, golf courses and nightclubs, this was a magnet for Jews of all classes, and many families and their friends returned to the same hotels or rooming houses year after year, until air conditioning, affluence and cheap air travel made alternatives available and brought the enchanted little world to an end.

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