The Beat Hotel after it had been sold and was being renovated. The cafe was no longer open, the shelves behind the bar on which bottles of drinks once stood were taken off because there were no customers and no one went into the bar. In the words of photographer Harold Chapman, "It was shut but I could go in there because I was still living in the hotel and could wander around anywhere I liked." 9 rue Git-le-Coeur, 6e arrondissement, Left Bank, Paris, France, 1963