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- Office Xmas Party: 1925
- ... Shining" of the 1921 New Year's Eve party at the Overlook Hotel. These folks will be back, again and again.
The timeless shorpy ...
Posted by Dave - 12/15/2023 - 3:04pm -
- The Raleigh: 1911
- The Raleigh Hotel at 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington circa 1911. National ...
[1964. Although it has a near twin in the Willard Hotel, designed by the same architect. - Dave]
WTTG - Westinghouse ... The WTTG studios were on the top floors of the Raleigh hotel, broadcasting on Channel 5 in the metro area. I recall that around 1962 ...
Posted by Dave - 09/04/2024 - 4:03pm -
- The Piney Hotel: 1941
- September 1941. "Hotel in Big Piney, Wyoming." Last glimpsed here . Medium format acetate ... the cranky guy but somebody is emerging to the left of the hotel building in a dark hat. The pickup is already there.
[You missed a ...
They did not oversell their product The Piney Hotel, Café, & Bar were a good place to stop; just read their sign.
Not ...
Posted by Dave - 04/16/2021 - 1:56pm -
- Hotel Astor: 1909
- New York circa 1909. "Hotel Astor, Times Square." Note the elaborate roof garden. 8x10 inch glass ... New York Times, 1920:
Down near Times Square the Hotel Astor Roof Garden and Belvedere Restaurant make it possible for the ... http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON023.htm
Hotel Astor Roof Garden Are there pictures of the Roof Garden? What is the ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 3:40pm -
- Hotel Flanders: 1905
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1905. "Hotel Flanders." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
No Mo' Hotel The hotel, at 15th and Walnut, was demolished long ago, as has much of ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 8:50pm -
- Hotel Henry: 1908
- ... yet. Anybody have a picture?
More than a mere hotel "Upon a commanding site in the very heart of Pittsburgh, that glowing ... steel, stone and terra cotta, and bears the title of the Hotel Henry. Monumental, though unpretentious, in the solidity of its exterior ...
Posted by Dave - 07/30/2012 - 4:37pm -
- Grand Hotel: 1900
- ... inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
The hotel has checked out But the building behind it remains.
Those ... "City Beautiful" Movement At the time this hotel was built, there was something called the "City Beautiful" movement, ...
Posted by Dave - 06/22/2015 - 10:54am -
- Elephant Walk: 1920
- ... Grantham Bain Collection. In the background: The Cort Hotel, probably at 301 West 48th Street and Eighth Avenue. Is it still there? ... people.
301 West 48th It sure looks like the Cort Hotel building is still standing . It's the building on the Northwest corner ...
Posted by Dave - 09/08/2011 - 6:21pm -
- Vanderbilt Hotel: 1913
- New York circa 1913. "Vanderbilt Hotel, Park Avenue at 34th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Hotel with a pedigree From its 1913 completion until it was converted to apartments in 1965, the Vanderbilt Hotel was one of the city's most fashionable in the early 20th Century. Singer ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 1:17pm -
- Hotel Franciscan: 1943
- February 1943. "Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Hotel Franciscan on Central Avenue." Medium format acetate negative by John ... View full size.
It stood only 47 years The Hotel Franciscan was only 19 years old when John Collier took his photograph. ...
Posted by Dave - 07/29/2024 - 9:59pm -
- Red Owl Supermarket
- ... linked with the city and its subsequent progress." The hotel, then the oldest building in town, is now gone. The Dakota Cafe building ... "renovated" into a hardware store.
Harlan Packard Hotel Googling turns up references to a number of (outdated, unfortunately) ...
Posted by 4allofyou - 09/20/2011 - 1:41am -
- Hotel Dixie: 1950
- ... York's 43rd Street, just off Times Square, circa 1950. "Hotel Dixie -- 700 rooms, each with bath and radio." Not to mention their own bus depot. Now the somewhat infamous Hotel Carter. 4x5 negative by James M. Fox. View full size.
That ...
Posted by Dave - 02/03/2015 - 10:16am -
- Hotel Zeiger: 1957
- August 13, 1957. "Hotel Zeiger. Ellenville, New York. General lobby." Join us in the Jubilee Room ... Corp. in the aftermath of a bank collapse that saw the hotel's owners indicted for embezzlement. It reopened as the Eldorado.
It's always fun time at the Hotel Zeiger The slogan must be true, since everyone in the postcard ...
Posted by Dave - 02/16/2013 - 3:40pm -
- Hotel Wisdom: 1942
- ...
Rooms to let, 50 cents No phone no food no pets ... Hotel Wisdom
Phone line Horse sneakers!
Hotel wisdom Don't walk barefoot on the carpet, and sanitize the remote.
...
Posted by Dave - 11/03/2023 - 7:48pm -
- Ghost Hotel: 1905
- "Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, circa 1905." Plus a ghost or two in this time exposure of the hotel's Clark Street facades. This Brooklyn Heights landmark, which by the 1930s was New York's largest hotel, with 2,632 rooms in a complex of buildings spread over a block, started ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:34pm -
- Murphy's Hotel: 1905
- ... Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Broad Street -- Murphy's Hotel." Last seen here . 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing ... View full size.
Col. John Murphy All about the hotel.
+106 Below is the same view from April of 2011.
Started as ...
Posted by Dave - 08/04/2018 - 4:59pm -
- Hotel Astor: 1909
- New York, 1909. "Hotel Astor, Times Square." Points of interest include the galleon lodged in the hotel facade, as well as a sign on the building next door advertising the fifth ... - Dave]
Hudson-Fulton Celebration Banquet The Hotel Astor is all dressed up for the official banquet of the Hudson-Fulton ...
Posted by Dave - 08/09/2012 - 3:18pm -
- Nantasket Beach: 1905
- ... people relaxing and enjoying themselves though.
Great Hotel I know nothing about the hotel resort on the hill but if it's like any of the other hotels we've seen ...
Posted by Dave - 08/02/2012 - 7:43pm -
- Spray Beer: 1908
- Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1908. "Imperial Hotel." Where the thirsty traveler could partake of the evocatively named Spray ... We have one example here . - Dave]
House (er, hotel) of cards The perspective of this photo makes me dizzy. It looks like ...
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2012 - 11:19am -
- Turkish Trophies: 1910
- ... Elks Monument and Wayne County Building." Far right, the Hotel Pontchartrain. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Ferry tales ... to the new. So much more lively and real.
Dyslexia Hotel Usually Shorpy hotels burn. But here, we have the Burns Hotel.
...
Posted by Dave - 12/02/2022 - 5:58pm -
- Two-Bit Hotel: 1921
- New York, July 5, 1921. "Lanier Hotel -- Rooms 25 cents." From the clues provided in the photo, who can ... of prices: At the turn of the twentieth century, a 25¢ hotel, with private room and clean sheets, was the top of the line; the more ... of communicable disease and lice.
That Is a Cheap Hotel Even in today's debased currency, that would be only $3.25 (I'm ...
Posted by Dave - 11/05/2012 - 12:11pm -
- White House Hotel: 1912
- October 15, 1912. "White House Hotel." The building at 156 Canal Street, New York, where John F. Schrank lived ...
So I assume that he didn't mere live at the White House Hotel, he owned and operated the hotel and the tavern.
[Not quite. Schrank rented a $2 room at the White ...
Posted by Dave - 09/11/2011 - 8:31pm -
- Hotel Dyckman: 1910
- Minneapolis circa 1910. " Hotel Dyckman and Sixth Street." Opened in 1910; demolished in 1979. 8x10 ...
Fireproof or not Word on the street is that the Hotel Dyckman was the first building in Minneapolis to be demolished by ... James Lileks on his site referred to the Dyckman as the "Hotel of Lies", for the creativity that went into the postcards promoting this ...
Posted by Dave - 11/10/2022 - 4:16pm -
- West Hotel: 1905
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, circa 1905. "West Hotel." Busy both architecturally and commercially. 8x10 inch glass negative, ... as a call to arms to save the city from itself.
West Hotel - 1927 Here's a picture of the hotel in 1927, looking a bit darker ...
Posted by Dave - 08/13/2012 - 6:00pm -
- Hotel Cadillac: 1899
- Detroit circa 1899. "Hotel Cadillac, Washington Boulevard." At left, the base of an electric arc ... Google just wanted to find me a car.
The O.C. Both hotel and car were named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of Detroit.
Book 'em The Hotel Cadillac may have been the top hotel in Detroit - every president ...
Posted by Dave - 04/03/2019 - 10:22am -
- Grand Hotel: 1890s
- ... St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1890s. "The Ponce de Leon Hotel, rear view." With this post, Shorpy is entering vacation mode for a week, ... View Larger Map
Smoking Why would a hotel need a giant smokestack (if indeed it belongs to the hotel?).
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Posted by Dave - 05/26/2013 - 1:27pm -
- Hotel Duval: 1910
- Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Duval." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... cigar store and buy a couple of Havanas, then over to the Hotel Duval for a cup of coffee on the balcony while reading your newspaper and ...
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2012 - 9:54pm -
- Hotel Harrington: 1917
- Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Hotel Harrington, 11th and E Sts. N.W." National Photo Company Collection glass ... It shows its age in many places, but is still a great hotel bargain within walking distance of all the monuments and museums. It has ... on the southwest corner across the street from the hotel. Similarly, the "modern" pay phone on the east side appears in the same ...
Posted by Dave - 11/06/2013 - 12:22pm -
- Capital Hotel: 1920
- Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Old Capital Hotel, 3rd and Pennsylvania N.W." When the place was torn down in 1926, the ... from "Capital" to "Capitol." Originally the St. Charles Hotel, it had a colorful (at times appalling) history going back to 1813. ...
Posted by Dave - 09/04/2012 - 4:57pm -
- OKC: 1942
- ... chain? I was surprised to see a lodging named Fidelity Hotel. I guess it was the owner's way of letting the public know there would ... ways to that new Hilton ... they're bound to fail.
The hotel and everything in the photo is gone. This section of West California ...
Posted by Dave - 01/12/2024 - 12:51pm -