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Great American Hoteliers - Pioneers of the Hotel Industry (Hardcover)
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Great American Hoteliers - Pioneers of the Hotel Industry (Hardcover)
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During the thirty years prior to the Civil War, Americans built
hotels larger and more ostentatious than any in the rest of the
world. These hotels were inextricably intertwined with American
culture and customs but were accessible to average citizens. As
Jefferson Williamson wrote in "The American Hotel" ( Knopf 1930),
hotels were perhaps "the most distinctively American of all our
institutions for they were nourished and brought to flower solely
in American soil and borrowed practically nothing from abroad."
Development of hotels was stimulated by the confluence of travel,
tourism and transportation. In 1869, the transcontinental railroad
engendered hotels by Henry Flagler, Fred Harvey, George Pullman and
Henry Plant. The Lincoln Highway and the Interstate Highway System
triggered hotel development by Carl Fisher, Ellsworth Statler,
Kemmons Wilson and Howard Johnson. The airplane stimulated Juan
Trippe, John Bowman, Conrad Hilton, Ernest Henderson, A.M.
Sonnabend and John Hammons.. My research into the lives of these
great hoteliers reveals that none of them grew up in the
hospitality business but became successful through their intense
on-the- job experiences. My investigation has uncovered remarkable
and startling true stories about these pioneers, some of whom are
well-known and others who are lost in the dustbin of history.
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