This brochure from the early 1970s is a bit scuffed in places but is otherwise intact and shows the hotel in its glory days.  We Googled to see how it might be doing now, and were met by a Wikipedia entry that would be hard for any other hotel to rival.  Here’s part of that (heavily abridged):  “The Ducor Hotel is an abandoned luxury hotel in Monrovia. Established in 1960, it had 106 rooms (but fell) into disrepair after being occupied by squatters who were removed before a failed effort at a Libyan-funded renovation.  The Ducor Palace Hotel opened in 1960, was the first international-class hotel in Liberia, and was for many years one of the few five-star hotels in all of Africa.  Intercontinental Hotels assumed operation on April 1, 1962 and it was renamed the Ducor Intercontinental.  The Ducor Intercontinental hosted important meetings between African leaders. Idi Amin is said to have swum in its pool while carrying his gun.  President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was so impressed with the hotel during his stay that he commissioned a similar luxury hotel in Abidjan, the Hotel Ivoire.  Inter-Continental Hotels ceased managing the hotel in 1987.  With political uncertainty looming, the Ducor Hotel closed in 1989, just before the coup led by Charles Taylor which ousted President Samuel Doe and marked the beginning of the First Liberian Civil War. The building endured much damage during this period, due both to the violence of the war and to postwar looting.”  And yet, this little brochure has survived.  Grade: 3