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Grand Hotel: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:34pm.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1908. "Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel." All this needs is some icing and a bride and groom on top. View full size.
Profit can be a HUGE motive
Submitted by schwertfich on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 5:47am.
This 1753-room casino (Bally's Atlantic City) replaced it.
Whoa Nouveau!
Submitted by Bink on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:41am.
That's grand, all right. If I ever get my time machine working, I'm using Shorpy as the GPS.
Inn-cinerator
Submitted by bigguy1960 on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 6:34am.
I hope those twin towers at the front are smokestacks -- to have them belching oodles of black smoke would complete the sinister look!
So hard to imagine
Submitted by Plymouthfan on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:52pm.
These things ever existed. Thank God these photos do.
A King's Ransom
Submitted by ZebraMan on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 8:50pm.
I'll bet that penthouse suite cost $10 or $12 a night!
No, No, Nanette!
Submitted by Rusty on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 4:48pm.
This fabulous hotel had famously fabulous afternoon teas. Irving Caesar wrote the words to the song "Tea for Two" here in the hotel's lobby in 1925.
What the heck
Submitted by ChefBoyRV on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 4:36pm.
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce on the Boardwalk ?
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