Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A sneak peak of what's to come and Cathy's time at the recent ICL kansas sale




One of over 3000 hotel plates sold in 1970 from the Wilard Hotel in Washington D.C.

One of a dozen freight elevator indicators sold from the Wilard Hotel in Washington D.C. 1970

Thanks for your many reponses now what I'm looking for is a publisher that might have an interest in working with me. My next blog will show photos of all the different types of memoribilia that may be collected from hotels and their approximate value.

As for now my family just returned from Wichita Kansas, I'll let you hear from my daughter Kathy about her exciting days below;
(Cathy)
"Broadview hotel, Wichita Kansas consisted of 3,000 people shopping over one weekend who completely bought out 231 rooms of furniture.People were wrapped around the block so excited but we could only let 200 in the hotel at one time. Sleigh beds were the favorite item head board footboard mattress and frame were going for only $250 dollars kings size now all of Kansas has a new bed. Keep in mind that we stand behind all of our beds. The hotel is renovating to become a boutique hotel over looking the arkansas river. Favorite stories were of clarence the happy hotel ghost who lived on the 7th floor. There were many sightings of clarence and I tried desperatly to find him but alas I came home with fond memories of wichita but no clarence. We saved the 8th floor presidential suite for the last week and when we opened the door people raced to the elevator in disorder. We had to eventually settle on letting them go upstairs by number for a piece of memoribilia from the broadview."
(End Cathy)

Thanks everyone once again. Keep up the feed back and keep checking in.

Clem D. Long
Founder of National Content Liquidators
Founder of Three generations of Hotel Liquidators

1 comment:

Paris Hotel Boutique said...

Clem, what a great story about Kansas. I love those old elevator indicators too!