Re: AHR(H) buys Grand Imperial Hotel

Fritz Klinke Wrote:
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> There are a number of historic pictures of the GI
> but I don't see any posted on our historical
> societies web site. The Silverton Standard printed
> one this past week. What is currently on our web
> site under the historic preservation tag is a
> series of the 1992 Town Hall fire--I'll ask the
> web master, who is out of town for a while, to
> post some of the pictures we have of the GI on our
> web site.
>
> Dance hall girls were on Blair Street and the
> typical Victorian dress for the period was rather
> severe for women working in restaurants and the
> like. The dress seen at the Strater's Diamond Bell
> saloon is a figment of someone's imagination. Well
> researched costumes will be a disappointment if
> done properly, but then there's always revisionist
> thinking that could prevail if the goal is to
> entertain rather than be authentic. In the 1880s,
> there was no hotel lobby on the first floor. What
> is now the lobby was at one time the newspaper
> office and printing plant. Other first floor
> spaces included a saloon and 2 other commercial
> spaces. The hotel was reached by 2 stairways, now
> blocked off, that lead directly from the street to
> the second floor.
>
> Plus I've had dinner with Russo and it was a
> quiet, dignified evening with no singing.


Russ & no singing = you are big time lucky.