Maybe down South somewhere.... At some small towns in Georgia they have BBQ 'shacks' - a few tables inside a 20 X 20 room w/ plank flooring. But wood-fired ribs...that'll knock your socks off.

Dave, ....youth 'Hostel' experience ? No experience with that...

Years back I stayed at the infamous 'Times Square Motor Hotel'. An archaic and rundown '30's type building. Bathroom share with rooms the size of closets. It was later condemned and gutted for total overhaul into something else.

One morning I awoke to sonic 'Boom' and followed others down the fire escape. When I returned later - there was a woman's body, covered by authorities 10 floors beneath - looking down into an enclosed space of some kind.

Don't ask me what in hell I was doing there. Just checking out the big apple in '79 or so. ....Many, many strippers and clubs in Times Square at the time..
At every corner it seemed...