Inside the Beat Hotel: downstairs in a recess adjoining the hotel cafe was the telephone for residents and visitors. In photographer Harold Chapman's own words, certain rooms in the hotel were privileged and had their own phone otherwise one had to go to the phone in the cafe. If people were phoned up at the cafe because they had no phone in their room, if they had a light on in their room the "light control panel" downstairs in the cafe would indicate to the hotel owner, Madame Rachou, that they were in and she would flick the switch three times. Otherwise, during the day she would go out into the street and scream at the top of her voice, for example, "Chambre 21, telephone" and they would come down to the cafe phone. The phone had a normal handset and additional earphone for someone else to listen in to the conversation. If you came from the outside to make a phone call in any cafe or bar, the custom was to order a small black coffee, go off and make the telephone call and then go back and pay for the phone call and leave a tip and finish your coffee. Beat Hotel, 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, Left Bank, Paris 6, 1962.