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Mark Inn Northeast, Atlanta (Georgia, USA)
We think this property is still there, though frankly Google does not make it easy to find out. We have better things to do! Four of these long (3-1/2″ x 8-1/4″) cards are available, unused, different grades. All are beginning to age. Two are Grade 3 ($2), one is Grade 2 ($3), and the other is Grade 1 ($4).
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New Pontchartrain Hotel, Detroit (Michigan)
It was New before 1908 when this card was mailed. The postmark is there but the stamp is gone and the card itself is quite battered. Grade: 5
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Chalfonte and Haddon-Hall Hotels, Atlantic City (New Jersey, USA)
Unused E.C. Kropp card 3913, with a previous owner’s name pencilled on the reverse. Grade: 3
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Multnomah Hotel, Portland (Oregon)
Unused and very old Bushong & Co. card, heavily aged (but age-appropriate), with a small abraded area on right reverse edge. Grade: 3
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Dun-Roamin Ranch Motel, Longview (Texas)
Unused linen card. Grade: 1
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Yellowstone Park, Old Faithful Inn Bed Room (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 10165 (front) and 64122 (reverse). Grade: 1
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Yellowstone Park, Liberty Cap and Mammoth Hotel (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 14043 (front) and 94919 (reverse). Grade: 2
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Yellowstone Park, Lake Hotel Lobby (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 23449 (front) and 97109 (reverse). Grade: 3
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Yellowstone Park, Lake Lodge Main Building (USA)
Refer to card 10151043 (Wyoming) for full description of the series. This card has reference numbers 26011 (front) and 111703 (reverse). Grade: 1
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Faraway Cottage Colony (Bermuda)
Google brings up a few references to this property in 1954, and it seems to be gone now, but the postcards survive: two are available, mailed from what appears to be a hotel booking consolidator to individual travel agents in 1959, asking those agents how many brochures they wanted. The cards each have a USA 3-cent commemorative and partial New York City postmark. Grades: 3
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Hotel Governor Clinton, New York
Unused Lumitone card most likely issued by the hotel and conveniently dated 1934. Grade: 2
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Central Park with Majestic Hotel & Dakota Ap. N.Y. City
Construction began on The Dakota in 1880, and it’s still there, a sad footnote (we won’t go into details) on New York City’s history. Unused and very old Rotograph postcard. Grade: 1
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The Glenmere Hotel and Country Club, Chester (New York)
In 1944, mailed from Chester with clear postmark and stamp. Grade: 1
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Hotel Bowles, Bloomington (Indiana)
Very long gone, but living on in this unused but heavily stained and aged card. Grade: 5
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Brown Hotel, Des Moines (Iowa, USA)
Unused card of a hotel razed long ago. Grade: 2
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The Delmonico, New York City
From this iconic old and stately hotel, a card mailed in 1959 with stamp, most of the postmark, and additional small inked notation. There’s also a story: the hotel hosted Charles of the Ritz Training School for skin care and beauty, for which (we suppose) persons from all over paid tuition to attend. As part of their package, the students received cards like this that had a mimeographed message on the back, to be sent to invite their own customers to contact the students later to “hear about the new season’s fashions,” and so on. Got that? Grade: 3
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The Glenmere Hotel and Country Club, Terrace Cafe, Chester (New York)
Something of a companion card to 30900552, mailed by the same person several months later (in 1945)–stamp and postmark fully intact. Grade: 2
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Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
One more thing to say about New York City: it sure has some famous hotels. Unused B&W Illustrated Postal Card Co. 131, with a tiny note on the front, Copyright 1901. Grade: 2
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The Roosevelt, The Colonial Room (New York City)
The hotel opened in 1924, so the unused B&W card must post-date that–and it’s still going strong, named after President Theodore Roosevelt. Did you know this was (according to the postcard) a Hilton Hotel? Grade: 1
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The Coronado, Miami Beach
From 1954, stamp and clear postmark, but also an ink smudge in the message, and a travel agent’s rubber stamp over the actual stamp. Major corner crease, visible in the photo. Grade: 5
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Downingtown, Ramada Inn Resort (Pennsylvania)
Unused card. Grade: 2
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McKinley Park Hotel (Alaska)
Unused H.S. Crocker card, aging. Grade: 2
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Hotel Blackhawk Sunday Smorgasbord, Davenport (Iowa, USA)
If we could go there now, and have this meal at the prices shown in the caption, we would be on a plane tomorrow. Unused card. Grade: 1
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Prag, Hotel Goldener Engel on Zeltnergasse, Pulverturm (Powder Gate) (Czech)
Yes, that was the correct spelling of Prag; and this is an unused Kosiner & Co. card from a long time ago. Aged and very atmospheric. Grade: 3
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Holiday Inn, Jesup (Georgia, USA)
We don’t know the exact date of this unused card, but it promotes “Free T.V.” and “Free Teletype Reservations,” so it does go back a bit. Grade: 1
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Holiday Inn, Manchester (Tennessee, USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Berjaya Tioman Resort (Malaysia)
Mailed in 2012 with stamp and very faint postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Amari Boulevard Hotel, Bangkok (Thailand)
Two of these (roughly) 5″ x 7″ unused cards are available. Grades: 1
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Glenwood Mission Inn, Spanish Wing, Riverside (California)
Unused, unattributed card 8177 N. Grade: 1
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U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego (California)
Unused Plastichrome card P413. Grade: 2
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Little River Inn (California)
“A Landmark on California’s Mendocino Coast since 1853” on a card mailed in 1974 with an 8-cent stamp and most of the postmark. Grade: 2
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Asilomar, Pacific Grove (California)
Best known as a conference center with overnight lodging. Unused card showing the front of the Administration Building and Social Hall. Grade: 2
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The Palmer House, Chicago
Now a Hilton, and called by at least one source the “longest continually operating hotel in North America,” the online reviews are great fun to read. Without doubt the property has been there, staid and solid, as long as anyone can remember. Two unattributed cards are available, one unused (Grade: 1, $1) and one mailed in May 1941 with stamp and postmark and wildly inappropriate message (Grade: 2, $2).
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The Stevens, Chicago (USA)
But now The Hilton Chicago, first opened in 1927 and the third largest in the city as of this writing. Unused B&W card with a quaint notation printed in the postage area: “Hand to Floor Clerk for Free Mailing.” Aging. Grade: 2
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Palmer House, Chicago
Unused Curteich-Chicago C.T. Art-Colortone linen card 0C-H483, published after The Palmer House had become A Hilton Hotel. Grade: 2
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Congress Hotel, Chicago (Illinois, USA)
Unused V.O. Hammon card, heavily aged. Grade: 3
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Y.M.C.A. Hotel, main lobby, Chicago (USA)
Unfortunately for the Y.M.C.A., a highly reputable organisation, all we think about when we hear the name are the Village People. They do not appear anywhere in this card, mailed in what looks like 1962 (postmark not quite clear). Grade: 1
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Hotel Europe, Minsk
Mailed in 2012 with three stamps, two postmarks, and one gold star sticker. Grade: 4
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Chateau d’Urspelt (Luxembourg)
Battered quite heavily during postal transit, this card was mailed from Belgium (not Luxembourg!) in 2012 with two different stamps but illegible postmark. Grade: 4
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The Kahler Hotel, Rochester (Minnesota, USA)
Unused card. Grade: 1