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- Super Chief: 1943
- ... at least 3 grand old railroad lines, the Harvey House hotel (upper left behind the station) was torn down, and the beautiful Mission ... across the street from the Harvey House in some old, cheap hotel.
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Posted by Dave - 07/29/2024 - 9:58pm -
- Savannarama: 1915
- ... of Savannah, Johnson Square, Savannah Bank Building and Hotel Savannah." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... as it may be, wreaks havoc with navigation.
The hotel was nothing extraordinary, perhaps, but made the April 1913 ...
Posted by Dave - 09/11/2024 - 5:48pm -
- Grand Central: 1900
- New York circa 1900. "Grand Central Station and Hotel Manhattan." The coming decade would see the replacement of this structure ...
Posted by Dave - 09/10/2024 - 3:21pm -
- Hotel Netherland: 1913
- New York circa 1913. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... they tore it down. Its successor, the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, opened in 1927.
William H. Hume, architect WILLIAM H. HUME, ... in New York, among them the Emigrant Savings Bank, Hotel Netherland (built 1892), Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Scotch Presbyterian ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 3:38pm -
- In My Room: 1941
- June 1941. "Untitled (Hotel room, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)." Medium format acetate negative by John ... all these give a feeling of the time and place.
The Hotel Wisconsin A July 5, 1941 letter to Vachon from FSA's Roy Stryker indicates Vachon was staying in the Hotel Wisconsin on this visit. That 500-room hotel, constructed in downtown ...
Posted by Dave - 02/26/2020 - 8:01pm -
- Hotel Meade: 1942
- April 1942. "Bannack, Montana. Old hotel." The supposedly haunted Hotel Meade . Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm ... town, while Bannack was rated "pure").
Restored The Hotel Meade has since been restored and was recently used in the 2017 movie ...
Posted by Dave - 02/17/2022 - 11:20am -
- Hotel Rochester: 1908
- Rochester, New York, circa 1908. "Hotel Rochester, Main Street and Plymouth Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative, ... Company. View full size.
Mostly Gone While the hotel is gone, the building mostly hidden behind it with the steep roof still ... the mansard roof, just barely visible to the left to the Hotel Rochester, is the Rochester Free Academy. It still stands, but has long ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 11:42am -
- Hotel Tuller: 1980s
- A circa 1980s look at the Tuller Hotel, seen earlier here and here . "Tuller Hotel, 501-521 Park Boulevard. The Tuller Hotel was one of the largest luxury hotels in Detroit in the early twentieth ...
Posted by Dave - 09/14/2011 - 5:01pm -
- Hotel Astor: 1916
- The Hotel Astor on Times Square circa 1916. Note roof garden and, at lower right, ...
Posted by Dave - 09/07/2011 - 9:16pm -
- Hotel Vincent: 1905
- Saginaw, Michigan, circa 1905. "Hotel Vincent." Try our depot shuttle. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... that (according to the maps and city records) that this hotel stood on the corner of Washington and Germania Avenues. I'm assuming that ... sentiment during WWI.
Map showing where the Hotel Vincent Once Stood marked as "1.".
Fire escapes Do those fire ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 2:10pm -
- One Second Fast: 1943
- ... like they belong in some fine residence or the lobby of a hotel somewhere. Not the least bit industrial in design! I shudder to think ...
Posted by Dave - 07/29/2024 - 9:58pm -
- Chop Suey Canyon: 1916
- ... but an ugly parking lot these days. As for the Charlevoix Hotel, it's still there, but it's been empty since the mid '80s. The Charlevoix was intended to be an office building. Instead, it was a hotel at first but only for about 10 years. It also spent a short time as an ...
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2012 - 9:56pm -
- Hotel Velvet: 1904
- Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Alberta and Velvet hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Watching the train roll by As youngsters we would watch the freight trains roll through this cr ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 11:15am -
- Hotel Ste. Claire: 1906
- Detroit circa 1906. " Hotel Ste. Claire , Randolph and Monroe streets." Completed 1893, razed in the ... the other 2.
A Bit Changed Today While the hotel is gone a few others down the block are still there. The building next to ... Kratz and Mittenthal.
Flag Poles Why does the hotel have 4 flagpoles near the top? is that to display banners?
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Posted by Dave - 02/27/2016 - 9:30am -
- The New Raleigh: 1912
- ... 1912. "The New Raleigh." The recently completed Raleigh Hotel at Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street N.W., built on the site of the previous Raleigh Hotel. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ...
Posted by Dave - 09/04/2024 - 4:13pm -
- Hotel Vermont: 1911
- Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. "Hotel Vermont." Last glimpsed here . 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... a memory of reading one of those signs on the back of a hotel-room door, and seeing "mileage books" as one of the things you were supposed to deposit in the hotel safe instead of keep in your room.
I'm still not quite sure why ...
Posted by Dave - 07/27/2018 - 10:06am -
- Banff Springs Hotel: 1905
- ... Canada, circa 1905. "Mount Rundle and the Banff Springs Hotel." Nineteenth-century Canadian Pacific Railway resort that gradually ... the mountains, supposedly pointing out where he wanted the hotel, but we long term CPR employees always figured it was his "Hey, you, I ...
Posted by Dave - 07/09/2014 - 12:16pm -
- You Are Here: 1950
- ... Main Street in Friendship, Wisconsin, at the Friendship Hotel, is the answer, supplied by "lifelong Wisconsin resident" Wiscojim. ...
Friendship Hotel The porch still exists on the front of the old Friendship Hotel in Friendship, Wisconsin.
Thanks wiscojim! Now someone help ...
Posted by Dave - 09/06/2015 - 5:18pm -
- The Hillman: 1906
- Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1906. "Hotel Hillman." Our second look at this inviting inn . 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Hotel H One has to wonder if there are two separate basements underneath the wings of the hotel. A bizarre union of onomatopoeia and pareidolia, or the human mind's ...
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2012 - 12:00pm -
- The Grotto: 1908
- ... New York, circa 1908. "The Grotto, Fort William Henry Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... 5 cent cigar!
An Adirondack tradition - the summer hotel The long tradition of large resort hotels has pretty much passed. In ...
Posted by Dave - 07/30/2011 - 9:01am -
- Ghost Convention: 1909
- June 1909. Toledo, Ohio. "The lobby, Hotel Secor." I cackled with glee upon realizing that this empty-looking time exposure was in fact crowded with spectral hotel guests. Are they still there? 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size. ... has been "modernized" since the building is no longer a hotel. I hate to imagine that beautiful skylight is no longer visible.
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Posted by Dave - 07/29/2012 - 6:14pm -
- Petroleum Palace: 1928
- ... 1928. "Buick sedan at Texaco service station. Jack Tar Hotel site." Now all long gone. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View ... of the running board below the driver's door?
Jack Tar Hotel Story on its demolition .
These were called "kick plates." ...
Posted by Dave - 01/23/2015 - 12:45pm -
- There's a Tall Hotel: 1905
- New York, 1905. "Hotel Netherland, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... full size.
At at Lower Height "There's a Small Hotel" was from 1936 Rodgers and Hart musical "On Your Toes" -- which us lucky ... more sense historically, and touted as the world's tallest hotel. The 'New' was dropped in 1908. Demolished in 1927 and promptly rebuilt ...
Posted by Dave - 07/14/2023 - 2:26pm -
- Sorry, Full: 1953
- ... Full Even the donkey lot is full.
Any Idea What Hotel That Is? It looks like one of those pictured in the many early 1900's shots of Atlantic City we see here on Shorpy.
The hotel I would say it is definitely the Traymore.
(ShorpyBlog, Member ...
Posted by Born Too Late - 06/08/2013 - 6:37pm -
- Indy Imperial: 1904
- Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1904. "Imperial Hotel." Whose architectural style might be described as Romanesque Rococo ... a Streetcar Strange that the Imperial, a substantial hotel, wasn't located on a streetcar line, at least initially. But then we ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 1:41pm -
- Lafayette Square: 1905
- ... next to a fire hydrant is illegal!
The Lafayette Hotel in the center of the shot in currently undergoing a $35M-$40M ... will result in one and two bedroom apartments and up to 50 hotel rooms, as well as several businesses on the ground floor. The exterior ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:42am -
- Hotel Cadillac: 1906
- Detroit circa 1906. "Hotel Cadillac, Washington Boulevard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... can make out the middle word in the inscription.
["Hotel Scotten Cadillac," for Daniel Scotten, who built the hotel in 1888.]
Thanks to 'Savonarola' I just spent 5 ...
Posted by Dave - 07/19/2012 - 10:19pm -
- Astoria, Oregon: 1944
- ... in the middle of the street is killing me!
Commodore Hotel If you'll be my Dixie Chicken, I'll be your Tennessee Lamb --
... Red ... and you didn't even need to stop.
Commodore Hotel The Commodore Hotel is still going strong. It was a nice boutique ...
Posted by Dave - 03/24/2021 - 10:54am -
- Yardmaster Tyres: 1943
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No furniture? They moved it all down to Brown's Hotel, where lots of them people have been travellin' for quite a spell.
Oh ...
Posted by Dave - 07/28/2024 - 5:14pm -
- Hotel Winston: 1913
- Washington, D.C., 1913. "Winston Hotel car." Parked, it would seem, in front of the Hotel Winston, First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. View full size.
... put the fire escape smack dab in the front of your nice hotel, might as well try and make it look nice. I presume the, what was that ...
Posted by Dave - 10/08/2014 - 1:23pm -