... of the second incarnation (1875-1923) of the Palmer House hotel. The front faced State Street, a block to the west.
Wabash Avenue L: ... exist. The very tall building in the center is the Trump Hotel and Tower across the river.
And yes, Pete is correct, that's the ...
... our trip to Atlantic City circa 1906. "Islesworth Gardens Hotel, Virginia Avenue." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View ... Thank You.
Phones in Rooms The Islesworth Gardens Hotel was popular with conventioneers (pharmacists, railroad ticket agents, ...
... D.C., circa 1927. "Thomas R. Shipp group, Hamilton Hotel. Atwater Kent standing by radio." National Photo Co. safety negative. ... address the annual Atwater Kent dealers meeting at the Hotel Hamilton, taking for his topic, "How Radio Dealers May Aid the Radio ...
Boston circa 1906. "Hotel Lenox." A number of hazards to look out for here. 8x10 inch dry plate ... can see just a hint of a railroad shed to the left of the hotel. Since the photo was taken the ground level has been extensively reworked ... so idyllic - obviously a large, well-made, high-class hotel. Yet the streets are almost deserted. They must have taken this on a ...
... circa 1906. "Bathers, Atlantic City." At right is the Hotel Traymore. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... invention of the jet airplane) or burned down. Below, the Hotel Traymore circa 1930. Demolished 1972. - Dave]
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Marilyn Monroe in 1953 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta, among those other majestic peaks known as the Canadian ... was retired from baseball and stayed with Marilyn at this hotel during the filming in this location.
Strangest thing I sprained my ...
... Sailors' Monument, Cadillac Square, Wayne County Building, Hotel Pontchartrain. Panorama of three 8x10 glass negatives. View full size. ... Even the group of folks standing at the corner of the Hotel have their attention turned in that direction! So much going on here!
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... cars, buildings are all gone.
[Not so. The Willard Hotel is still very much there. - Dave]
Cough Cough Rally for the ... a sliver of which is visible just behind the Raleigh Hotel, still stands (at least its facade does). Farther down the street in the ...
St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905. "Ryan Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... the computer screen.
A magnificent memory The Hotel Ryan was demolished in 1962 and the site was a parking lot for the next ...
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Where is it now? Trembleau Hall was a luxury hotel and casino in the 30s, from what I can find.
I found a newspaper article from 1931 describing the hotel (SYracuse Herald, Morning Edition, August 2, 1931)
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... there. However, the backdrop is definitely not the Raleigh Hotel (the old one or its replacement).
There's no visible sign ... Avenue and 12th Street, across from the Raleigh Hotel. -Dave]
Indeed it is. Here's a detail from this LOC photo ... a $2 fare and ran a route between the Francis Scott Key Hotel (originally the New City Hotel until it was torn down for the ...
... The Brunswick appears to be the opposite of a no-tell hotel.
Military protocol Sure the General begins it, but the grunt work ... Before Viagra There was Amolin, Bénédictine and the Hotel Brunswick.
Vandals! I love the graffiti on the wall. Very well ...
... Sooty Philadelphia circa 1910. "The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... Disease made its first known appearance at this hotel during the 1976 American Legion convention. The bacteria had been hiding ...
... New York, circa 1915. "Broadway at the United States Hotel." Looking more than a little like one of those idealized Disney "Main ... "Great American Main Street" awards. The United States Hotel opened in 1874 and had 768 rooms and 65 suites. It was, however, ...
... and Mills Based on the address of the old Grand Central Hotel and the bend in the streetcar line, this appears to be taken from the ... in the 1980's for the exppansion of the Paso del Norte Hotel.
Believe me, Dave has managed to bring up a great amount of detail ...
... New York, circa 1908. "Grand piazza, Fort William Henry Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... of June 24, 1909 at the onset of the summer season, the hotel was completely destroyed by fire."
... The idea that people would go on vacation to an elegant hotel to simply sit on a veranda (and a very beautiful one at that) has gone ...
... The Times Square Cafeteria, William Penn Hotel and Washington Avenue -- all located far south of their namesakes, in ... size.
What's in names Plus the Blackstone Hotel, sharing the name of Chicago's headquarters of the "smoke-filled room". ...