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Casey's room at the Parker Spruce Hotel. $47 a night, $165 a week, $10 extra for a color TV. Just to visit someone, you must pay $5.76, tax included. Free condoms at the desk, courtesy of the city's health department. The bathtroom is shared with one other room. No fridge, cooking or pets, technically, except mice. Horrible, it's been called, one of the worst in Philly, but Bernadette, a bartender at McGlinchey's, stayed here for seven years. Whole families call this their home, not just hurting singles, drug addicts and whores. Samuel "Chip" Delany told me its restaurant, The Westbury, was his favorite until the cook went somewhere else.



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