October 2022
This and that...
Hew and Draw Hotel Corner Brook Newfoundland
Prettiest public washroom - Sydney Nova Scotia
Showing posts with label hotel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hotel. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Signs 2
Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day
2014 - Mazatlan Mexico
I love how the room numbers are displayed in the Hotel Machado.
Friday, August 28, 2020
Weekend Roundup
Welcome to The Weekend Roundup...hosted by Tom The Back Roads Traveler
My last rounds were coffee and beer. So it's time for some food and sleep!
1. Starts with "I"
2. A Favorite
3. INTRICATE - chosen by Tom
Starts with "I"
INDIAN Lake INN Bear Creek PA
FAVOURITE
IBIS chain of hotels is a favourite of ours in Europe. This one is in Birmingham.
INTRICATE
Everything is INTRICATE about this painting, frame and wallpaper in the Duke of Edward Hotel in Stratford ON.
Déjà Brew
A catchall for leftover beer, coffee and whatever catches my fancy!
Full IRISH breakfast at the Aghadoe Hotel in IRELAND
Monday, May 11, 2020
Signs 2
Joining Tom at Signs2.
Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day
Gay NYC Dad
Continuing with pit stops...
a stop (as during a trip) for fuel, food, or rest or for use of a restroom.
September 2017 - Jackson Hole WY
Wort Hotel
Wordless Wednesday Wordless Be There 2day
Gay NYC Dad
Continuing with pit stops...
a stop (as during a trip) for fuel, food, or rest or for use of a restroom.
September 2017 - Jackson Hole WY
Wort Hotel
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Tuesday Treasures Around the World
Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.
Travel Tuesday
Our World Tuesday
Image-in-ing
My Corner of the World
April 2015 - Cisco Texas
I've been intrigued by Conrad Hilton since I read The Hiltons. But imagine my surprise as we were driving from Odessa TX to Fort Worth to spot a billboard out of the corner of my eye advertising "Cisco home of the first Conrad Hilton hotel"!!!
With great excitement I said we must stop in Cisco. John was willing (he always is) and was also curious about what we would find.
Like many of these small towns dotting the interstates there are many boarded up businesses. We drove around looking for the "attraction".
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The Victor Hotel has been closed for decades in this dusty West Texas town.
It is believed from the look of the lettering and the style of the sign, that it was painted on the side of the Victor Hotel wall facing what was at that time the Bankhead Highway/US 80 through Cisco, in the 1950s.
Cisco was bypassed by the new interstate I-20, when it was designed and built through Eastland County south of town in the 1960s.
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We almost gave up but suddenly we were there.
It was restored by the Hilton Foundation and turned into the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce office and community center. But two of its rooms have been preserved as they were in 1919, and a third serves as a small museum.
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Here is an interesting article on how the oil and gas business boomed overnight around Cisco.
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By reading the book I had learned that one of his sons was the first husband of Elizabeth Taylor.
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I walked by this hotel a million times when we lived in Montreal, and even had lunch there a few times.
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Travel Tuesday
Our World Tuesday
Image-in-ing
My Corner of the World
April 2015 - Cisco Texas
I've been intrigued by Conrad Hilton since I read The Hiltons. But imagine my surprise as we were driving from Odessa TX to Fort Worth to spot a billboard out of the corner of my eye advertising "Cisco home of the first Conrad Hilton hotel"!!!
With great excitement I said we must stop in Cisco. John was willing (he always is) and was also curious about what we would find.
Like many of these small towns dotting the interstates there are many boarded up businesses. We drove around looking for the "attraction".
The Victor Hotel has been closed for decades in this dusty West Texas town.
It is believed from the look of the lettering and the style of the sign, that it was painted on the side of the Victor Hotel wall facing what was at that time the Bankhead Highway/US 80 through Cisco, in the 1950s.
Cisco was bypassed by the new interstate I-20, when it was designed and built through Eastland County south of town in the 1960s.
We almost gave up but suddenly we were there.
It was restored by the Hilton Foundation and turned into the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce office and community center. But two of its rooms have been preserved as they were in 1919, and a third serves as a small museum.
Here is an interesting article on how the oil and gas business boomed overnight around Cisco.
By reading the book I had learned that one of his sons was the first husband of Elizabeth Taylor.
I walked by this hotel a million times when we lived in Montreal, and even had lunch there a few times.
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Monday, November 11, 2019
Murals, Tunes and Treasures
I'm linking up at Monday Mural
Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.
Tom hosts Tuesday's Treasures Travel Tuesday Our World Tuesday Image-in-ing
My Corner of the World
September 2019 - Toronto ON
Discovered on a walk along Dundas West at the Chelsea Hotel.
Click here to see more Yonge St. murals highlighting the street's musical history.
Pam Lostracco is the artist and was done in 2018.
Murals surrounding the Chelsea’s parking ramp are divided into panels — to resemble a film strip — and include colourful elements that highlight the evolution of theatre on Yonge Street. Reflective paint, beams of colour and a unique marquee overhang now welcome guests as they drive down the ramp, including a scene from Phantom of the Opera.
Massey Hall, I've written about it before.
Nickelodeon At Dundas Street. Unaware Ryerson students there one night in '74 were sitting next to an incognito Bob Dylan.
Lowe's Theatre, now known as the Elgin and Winter Gardens Theatres.
The magnificent theatre complex on Yonge Street, a few doors north of Queen Street was erected in 1913.
The two theatres were of distinctly different personalities: the Elgin was all gold leaf and rich fabrics, a formal theatre of plaster cherubs and ornate opera boxes. The Winter Garden was a botanical fantasy, its walls hand-painted to resemble a garden, its ceiling a mass of real beech boughs and twinkling lanterns. The theatres played host to such greats as George Burns and Gracie Allen, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
When The Phantom of the Opera began its 10-year run in Toronto in September 1989, it opened in an opulently restored Pantages Theatre, where we saw it!
Love how she signed this!
Tom the backroads traveller hosts this weekly meme.
Tom hosts Tuesday's Treasures Travel Tuesday Our World Tuesday Image-in-ing
My Corner of the World
September 2019 - Toronto ON
Discovered on a walk along Dundas West at the Chelsea Hotel.
Click here to see more Yonge St. murals highlighting the street's musical history.
Pam Lostracco is the artist and was done in 2018.
Murals surrounding the Chelsea’s parking ramp are divided into panels — to resemble a film strip — and include colourful elements that highlight the evolution of theatre on Yonge Street. Reflective paint, beams of colour and a unique marquee overhang now welcome guests as they drive down the ramp, including a scene from Phantom of the Opera.
I know, wrong Chelsea Hotel, but who could resist!
Chelsea Hotel - Leonard Cohen
Imperial 6 Theatre was at Yonge and Dundas in 1919.
Massey Hall, I've written about it before.
Nickelodeon At Dundas Street. Unaware Ryerson students there one night in '74 were sitting next to an incognito Bob Dylan.
Lowe's Theatre, now known as the Elgin and Winter Gardens Theatres.
The magnificent theatre complex on Yonge Street, a few doors north of Queen Street was erected in 1913.
The two theatres were of distinctly different personalities: the Elgin was all gold leaf and rich fabrics, a formal theatre of plaster cherubs and ornate opera boxes. The Winter Garden was a botanical fantasy, its walls hand-painted to resemble a garden, its ceiling a mass of real beech boughs and twinkling lanterns. The theatres played host to such greats as George Burns and Gracie Allen, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle and Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
When The Phantom of the Opera began its 10-year run in Toronto in September 1989, it opened in an opulently restored Pantages Theatre, where we saw it!
All I Ask of You
Love how she signed this!
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