Charlie Geter had been living in the Palace Hotel, a flophouse on New York City's Bowery, for over twenty-five years when producers David Isay and Stacy Abramson met him while working on their documentary The Sunshine Hotel. Impressed by his heart and drive, they gave Charlie a tape recorder and asked him to interview other residents of the Palace Hotel and to tell his life story.

Charlie worked on the project for nearly two years, recording late into the night and struggling to get interviews from the other hotel residents. Charlie now lives -- in his own apartment -- in Manhattan.

Narrator: Charles Geter / Producers: David Isay and Stacy Abramson / Editor: Gary Covino / Production Assistants: Suzanne Clores and Meagan Howell / Technical Consultant: Caryl Wheeler / Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Greenwall Foundation. Special thanks to The Bowery Residents Committee. Photograph by Harvey Wang.

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