Search Shorpy
Search results -- 30 results per page
- Hotel DeSoto: 1908
- Circa 1908. "DeSoto Hotel, Savannah, Georgia." Automobilists welcome! 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... are welcome too!
Gone With the Wind The Desoto Hotel opened in 1890. It was designed by William Gibbons Preston, a Boston ... remarkable Romanesque buildings in Savannah.
The Desoto Hotel was revered as one of Preston's masterpieces. The hotel was torn down in ...
Posted by Dave - 06/14/2014 - 8:49am -
- Hotel McAlpin: 1912
- New York circa 1912. "Hotel McAlpin, Herald Square." 1,500 rooms with, the sign informs, ... View full size.
Communicating Baths The hotel I grew up in was built around the turn of the 20th century. Though not as ... though. It seems to persist abroad, if international hotel advertisements online are any communication - I mean, indication.
A ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:45pm -
- The New Hotel: 1908
- ... ROCHESTER, Sept. 13 — Rochester’s new hotel, the Seneca, will be opened tomorrow in time for the State Democratic ... here Tuesday. The hostelry in size will compare with the Hotel Astor in New York. Its architecture is in a general way French ...
Posted by Dave - 02/17/2017 - 6:25pm -
- 66 & 85: 1943
- ... A nice article on the former Hilton, now the Andaluz Hotel, the ten-story building in the background:
https://hauntedhouses.com/new-mexico/hotel-andaluz/
Before/After Most of these "here's what it looks like ...
Posted by Dave - 07/29/2024 - 9:59pm -
- Plaza Hotel: 1912
- New York circa 1912. "Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street." The original "big box." 5x7 glass ... View full size.
High End Digs The Plaza Hotel, built in 1907, is now a condominium as well. There are listings for 3 ... on a pig?"
Eloise Any mention of the Plaza Hotel to a native New Yorker immediately conjurs up remembrances of it's most ...
Posted by Dave - 03/04/2013 - 10:09am -
- Rust Belt Riviera: 1912
- ... it's difficult because I can't pick out the Renaissance Hotel, where all of the baseball players stay, and which would have been a ...
Posted by Dave - 07/21/2024 - 2:02pm -
- Hotel Gayoso: 1910
- Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Hotel Gayoso." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... cubes of glass set in the sidewalk (seen in front of Hotel Gayoso) were to let light down to the basements beneath the streets.
... gasworks, bakeries, wine cellar, and sewer system, the hotel offered amenities far beyond those available to the rest of Memphis. The ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 11:38am -
- Grand Hotel: 1904
- New York circa 1904. "Hotel Manhattan, Madison Avenue and 42nd Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... People come, People go, Nothing ever happens The Grand Hotel in Berlin 1932 had Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan ... - tterrace]
From beautiful to bland The Manhattan Hotel was constructed in 1897, designed by architect Henry J. Hardenbergh. ...
Posted by Dave - 04/20/2014 - 12:24am -
- Radio City: 1932
- ... most would find it a handsome building.
Park Central Hotel Radio City Music Hall fronts 6th Avenue, between W 50th and W 51st ... the 1932 photo is the five-year-old, 25-story Park Central Hotel. It was and is located at 870 7th Ave , between W 55th and W 56th ...
Posted by Dave - 11/02/2023 - 11:39am -
- Bathing in the Casino: 1889
- ... "Bathing pool in the Casino. (Probably the Ponce de Leon Hotel, St. Augustine, Florida.)" UPDATE: This was actually the nearby Hotel Alcazar (thanks to Amphalon). Photograph by William Henry Jackson. View ...
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2012 - 4:53pm -
- Gasolene Gospel: 1937
- ... Thru. Towards. No wonder the kids today can't spell.
Hotel Auditorium Wonderful photograph!
From the web site, Cleveland Memory, regarding the Hotel Auditorium: The Hotel Auditorium is Cleveland's newest hotel in the ...
Posted by Dave - 02/13/2013 - 3:54pm -
- Hotel Hillman: 1906
- Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1906. "Hotel Hillman." And the Dairy Depot next door. 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... and have lived here most of my life. Never heard of this hotel but do know there was the old Hillman Hospital on southside. Thanks for ... glimpse into Birmingham's history.
A youngster The Hotel Hillman was only 5 years old in 1906!
Every picture tells a story ...
Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 2:54pm -
- Bus Baggage: 1943
- ... in Columbus The bus may be Columbus bound but that big hotel in the background is the old Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[Thankyou! - Dave]
It's ...
Posted by Dave - 09/17/2014 - 3:06pm -
- Hotel St. Charles: 1910
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1910. "Hotel St. Charles." It's getting to be that time of year again -- the season ...
The Boardwalk The boardwalk was put up to keep hotel patrons from tracking sand into the lobbies. The St. Charles Hotel was ...
Posted by Dave - 08/08/2012 - 2:50pm -
- Hotel Iroquois: 1905
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Hotel Iroquois." A nice selection of ghost pedestrians in this time exposure. ... Co. View full size.
It's OK But it's no Hotel Netherland.
Awnings The front of the building faced east. If we ... top floors.
Or, facing west If the front of the hotel is indeed facing east then the sun, quite remarkably, is shining from the ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:40am -
- Herald Square: 1908
- ... Sixth Avenue elevated tracks, New York Times building and Hotel Astor. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
James Gordon ... be seen far down the tracks on the right.
Hotel Normandie "Absolutely Fireproof"
Made of 100% Asbestos.
Wow! ...
Posted by Dave - 12/02/2020 - 2:40pm -
- La Fétra's Hotel: 1901
- Hotel owned by Sarah Doan La Fetra -- temperance worker, suffragist, ... side, looking west from 11th Street, showing La Fétra's Hotel on the corner." 5x7 glass negative, D.C. Street Survey. View full size.
1901 Time Warp Caught on Film The man by the hotel's corner pharmacy is stepping into another dimension.
No more La ...
Posted by Dave - 01/22/2021 - 12:05pm -
- On Second Thought: 1939
- ... the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Hotel Yucca The building is now a bank but the swastikas remain around the upper perimeter. More info at Hotel Yucca history .
"An interesting history" ...
Posted by Dave - 11/25/2017 - 4:45pm -
- Lanier Hotel: 1921
- New York, July 5, 1921. "Lanier Hotel restaurant." Fried kidney only 20 cents. Note sleeping mousers. 5x7 glass ...
Posted by Dave - 07/09/2013 - 1:40am -
- Hotel Chamberlin: 1905
- ... The Chamberlin, a gigantic Queen Anne-style hotel designed by the firm of Smithmeyer and Pelz, architects of the Library of ... in 1894 and was destroyed by fire in 1920.
1905. "Hotel Chamberlin and government dock, Old Point Comfort, Virginia." 8x10 inch ...
Posted by Dave - 09/18/2015 - 12:25pm -
- The Seelbach: 1907
- Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1907. "Seelbach Hotel." Which might have had a roof garden. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit ... Seelbach I have childhood memories of this classic old hotel. One of my uncles lived there for many years, and we visited him a number ...
Posted by Dave - 08/06/2012 - 1:15am -
- Honeymoon Hotel: 1941
- ... "Boardinghouse in Baraga, Michigan," a.k.a. the Honeymoon Hotel. View full size. Medium format safety negative by John Vachon for the ... a photo from my home area. This is the old Honeymoon Hotel in Baraga, Michigan, on the Keweenaw Bay Indian Reservation in the Upper ...
Posted by Dave - 06/28/2008 - 11:11am -
- New Hampshire Hotel: 1905
- ... not. Two-fifths of that bank is gone, and the entire hotel. It’s been gone a while because the replacement buildings are quite old too!
[The hotel is indeed gone, except for its grin. - Dave]
When Did It Burn Down? ...
Posted by Dave - 02/13/2018 - 10:45pm -
- Hotel Gus: 1905
- ... circa 1905. "Resort sightseers on dock of Gus. Trautz's Hotel." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
... building is still there... Built in the 1870's, this hotel was bought by Gus Trautz in 1898. It was known by many names: Kehl's ...
Posted by Dave - 09/12/2012 - 10:38am -
- Hotel Pullman: 1900
- Hot Springs, Arkansas, circa 1900. "The Hotel Pullman." HELP WANTED: Sidewalk jockey with a good head on his ... Co. View full size.
Pullman? So did the hotel's beds fold down out of the ceiling?
Not shown: "Bathhouse ... shoe shine stands in railroad stations, airports, and hotel lobbies. The 'shoeshine boy' (just a name since many were adults) usually ...
Posted by Dave - 05/17/2014 - 11:42pm -
- Grand Hotel: 1908
- ... City, New Jersey, circa 1908. "Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel." All this needs is some icing and a bride and groom on top. View full ... on the Boardwalk ?
No, No, Nanette! This fabulous hotel had famously fabulous afternoon teas. Irving Caesar wrote the words to ...
Posted by Dave - 08/03/2012 - 4:07pm -
- Hotel Seminole: 1910
- Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Seminole." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing ... know it at the time, but the opening of the Seminole Hotel in 1910 was the beginning of the end for that.
Miami, 300+ miles to ... dining and lounging (or drinking) - yet this is the first hotel I have seen that does that! Now I'll have to look out for more.
...
Posted by Dave - 07/31/2012 - 4:16pm -
- Gulf Hotel: 1939
- The Gulf Hotel building (and lighthouse) at 1315 Fifth Street.
April 1939. "Even ... Thank you for all of the wonderful pictures of this hotel/ gas station.
Amazing that they would have to advertise for a ...
Posted by Dave - 04/26/2019 - 11:58am -
- Hotel Windle: 1910
- ... only ones I can identify with any certainty are the large (hotel?) in the center of the photo and the smaller, more classical structure ... lot quainter than the current City Hall And you can see Hotel Windle behind it.
http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/166965
...
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2012 - 8:34pm -
- The Claypool: 1904
- Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1904. "Claypool Hotel, Washington and Illinois Streets." And, at far left, THE PENCE. We wonder ... Company. View full size.
Indy's Grandest Hotel Further reading on the Claypool: A Look at Indy's Grandest Hotel ...
Posted by Dave - 07/15/2018 - 5:02pm -