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Author : Jon Baughman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615320717
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Bedford Springs Resort written by Jon Baughman and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alison Reed Ross
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738592986
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Bedford Springs Hotel written by Alison Reed Ross and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bedford Springs Hotel, located in a valley in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains, has a rich and fascinating history spanning over 200 years. Established in the 1790s by Dr. John Anderson, who gained his knowledge of the therapeutic mineral springs from local Native Americans, the spa resort drew visitors to the almost magical curative waters in search of renewed health and vitality. Bedford Springs grew to be a popular and fashionable summer resort destination throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, hosting industrialists and socialites and even serving as the summer White House. After housing a US Navy training school and Japanese diplomat detainees during World War II , the Bedford Springs Hotel attracted resort goers until the late 1980s, when it closed its doors. The expansive property sat silently, but elegantly, for two decades before its 2007 rebirth as the luxurious Omni Bedford Springs Resort.
Author : John G. Sabol
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537781730
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)
Download or read book The Haunting of the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and Spa written by John G. Sabol and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bedford Springs Resort and Spa is haunted. This haunting takes the form of two materializations. First are the historical documents, objects, and photographs on display there, the things left behind. The second involves those presences who have remained behind and/or have returned, former guests who continue to partake of the 'Bedford Springs Experience'. These returning guests are not professional 'ghosts', those encountered on 'ghost hunts' or sensed by mediums. They are also not commercial 'ghosts', those marketed by the resort for their economic potential. These ghosts are those frequently encountered by both staff and guests during the daily activities and routine tasks performed there. They add an uncanny element to the social character that is the Bedford Springs Resort and Spa.
Author : Janet Mace Valenza
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 029276796X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Taking the Waters in Texas written by Janet Mace Valenza and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study reveals a fascinating yet forgotten aspect of life in nineteenth century Texas—its once-famous mineral spring health spas. Southern Texas once boasted an enviable variety of mineral waters. Though most are closed and nearly forgotten today, Texas spas and resorts once drew thousands of visitors from across the country. They came seeking rejuvenation of body and spirit in the healing mineral waters. This book offers the first comprehensive history of Texas’ healing springs. Janet Valenza tracks the rise, popularity, and decline of the "water cure" from the 1830s to the present day. She follows the development of major spas and resorts, such as Mineral Wells and Indian Hot Springs near El Paso, as well as smaller, family-run springs. Valenza also describes how mineral waters influenced patterns of settlement, transportation routes, commerce, and people’s attitudes toward the land. Period photos and quotes from those seeking cures offer vivid glimpses into the daily life at the springs, which Valenza lists and describes county-by-county in the appendix.
Author : Ellen Prentiss Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627200998
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Bowl with Gold Seams written by Ellen Prentiss Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is sharp, vivid, and gut-wrenching story-telling of the most powerful kind." -Catherine Mayo, author, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire Ellen Prentiss Campbell's debut novel, The Bowl with Gold Seams, is a moving, intimate story of unexpected personal transformations. An unusual chapter in the long history of the Bedford Springs Hotel in Pennsylvania inspired this work of historical fiction: during the summer of 1945, the resort served as the unlikely detainment center for the Japanese ambassador to Berlin, his staff, and their families. The Bowl with Gold Seams tells Hazel Shaw's story as a young woman working at the hotel among the Japanese, and the further story of the reverberating lifelong consequences of that experience. The final events of the war challenge her beliefs about enemies and friends, victory and defeat, love and loyalty. In the ensuing years she remains haunted by memories. An unexpected encounter causes Hazel to return to the hotel long after the end of the war; she must confront her past, come to terms with her present life, and determine her future.
Author : Chris Rodell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1938908511
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Use All the Crayons! written by Chris Rodell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Rodell likes to consult with a five-year-old anytime he needs a reminder as to what is important in life. In his uplifting, humorous, and spiritual guidebook Use All the Crayons!, Rodell encourages others to become universally happy by becoming more colorful, interesting, and, most importantly, fun! Rodell insists that colorful people are invited to the coolest parties; with that goal in mind, he presents over five hundred tips and entertaining, Dale Carnegielike anecdotes that provide a glimpse into how he has successfully transformed his life into one not focused on money or fame, but instead on inspirational experiences, laughter, and fulfillment. Accompanied by personal diary entries, Rodell shares simple ideas for living a more colorful life, including adding the title Rev. to all subscriptions and charitable donations, keeping handfuls of confetti ready for impromptu celebrations, and understanding the advantages of getting a $75 wrist tattoo of an $18,000 Rolex instead of the real thing. Like a box of crayons, we are all born with an astounding range of color options. This effervescent guidebook combines populist common sense with a healthy dose of optimism in the hopes of teaching others how to make every day as vivacious as the brightest crayon in the box.
Author : Stanley Turkel CMHS
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496933346
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Hotel Mavens written by Stanley Turkel CMHS and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word maven is defined by Wikipedia as a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass knowledge on to others. Since the 1980s it has become more common when the New York Times columnist William Safire adapted it to describe himself as the language maven. The word from Hebrew is mainly confined to American English and was included in the Oxford English Dictionary second edition (1989). My three hotel mavens are: 1) Lucius M. Boomer, one of the most famous hoteliers of his time, was chairman of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corporation. In a career of over half a century, he directed such celebrated hotels as the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia, the Taft in New Haven, the Lenox in Boston, and the McAlpin, Claridge, Sherry-Netherland and the original as well as the current Waldorf-Astoria in New York. 2) George C. Boldt who was the genius of the original Waldorf-Astoria. It was said of him that he made innkeeping a profession and, more than any man, was responsible for the modern American hotel. 3) Oscar of the Waldorf who was described in 1898 by the New York Sun: In only one New York hotel, however, is there a personage deserving to be called a matre dhotel. Anyone who studies him closely will soon arrive at a firm conviction that he might quite as appropriately have been called General or Admiral, if circumstances had not led him into the hotel business. Oscar knows everybody. Oscar was a superstar of his time and one of the stalwarts who managed both the original and the current Waldorf-Astoria. Among his many duties, Oscar commanded a staff of 1,000 persons bedsides conducting a school for waiters, at the time the only one of its kind in the United States. In 1896, Oscar wrote one of the greatest cookbooks of its time: The Cook Book by Oscar of the Waldorf. It contains 907 pages and 3,455 recipes.
Author : Stanley Turkel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 144900752X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Great American Hoteliers written by Stanley Turkel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Barry Fulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781981329632
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Behind the Seventh Veil written by Barry Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the Seventh Veil is the third in the Thomas Sebastian Scott Espionage Mystery series: #1 Flame--Artists, Hackers, Lovers, and Spies (2014); #2 The Lady is Bugged (2015). His friends feared him lost in the coup,But from Istanbul to Austria he flew.Please tell me more,Why the detour?A fraulein, methinks,to pursue?A long-lost erotic film discovered in Pittsburgh leading to the search for a descendent of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, the disappearance of a rogue NSA cyber-spy in Turkey, a West Virginia artist witnessing a ritual Japanese suicide in New York, the assassination of a top general in Iran, a secret revealed from a youthful dalliance by a beloved priest, an airport bomb blast in Istanbul leading to incarceration in an ancient sanatorium, and a surprising conclusion involving an undercover British agent, an eager American intelligence analyst, and a return to the Austrian village of St. Wolfgang by Thomas Sebastian Scott.
Author : Wally Ely
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738562452
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Dorney Park written by Wally Ely and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorney Park boasts a rich history. In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, Wally Ely and Bob Ott explore the park's past.
Author : Brian Butko
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811732284
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Roadside Giants written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lucy, the colossal elephant-shaped building on the Jersey Shore, to the grand donut atop Randy's in Los Angeles, this full-color guide profiles the commercial giants that loom over America's highways. Created to sell products and promote tourism in a big way, they can be found all over the United States. The authors have traveled far and wide to bring readers the world's largest duck in Long Island, an enormous Amish couple in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, and towering Paul Bunyans all over the Midwest. There are buildings shaped like hot dogs, ice cream cones, and baskets, as well as the roadside phenomena known as "Muffler Men," giants who originally advertised mufflers but now have been converted to cowboys, Indians, spacemen, and pirates. Big fun!
Author : Joseph C. Grew
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144749508X
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Ten Years in Japan written by Joseph C. Grew and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Years in Japan is a fascinating and unique look inside the government of Japan before and during the attack on Pearl Harbour. Written from the detailed personal diaries of Joseph C. Grew the American ambassador based in Tokyo from 1932 and up until war was declared in the beginning of 1942. This book deals, as is right and proper, primarily with American-Japanese relations. But for British readers it has a special interest because it covers a period during which British and American policies in the Orient followed parallel lines; a period when the two Governments were grappling with problems always similar and sometimes identical. The interest is not lessened by the peeps that we get of what were, in fact, unremitting efforts on the part of the Japanese to sow discord between Britain and America on the principle of 'divide et impera.'
Author : George Peper
Publisher : Artisan Books
ISBN 13 : 1579653952
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)
Download or read book True Links written by George Peper and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most challenging, most invigorating holes a golfer can tackle. In this beautiful book, Peper and Campbell, two writers who know golf inside and out, provide a concise and entertaining tour of the world's best links courses. Full color.
Author : Stanley Turkel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781504967037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Great American Hoteliers Volume 2 written by Stanley Turkel and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to my first hotel book, ?Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry? AuthorHouse 2009. It tells the fascinating and unpredictable stories of seventeen hotel pioneers who were (and are) important in the development of the hotel industry in the United States. Many of them are relatively unknown and lost in the dustbin of American history. Their biographies comprise this sequel called ?Great American Hoteliers Volume 2: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry?: ? Stewart William Bainum (1920-2014) ? Curtis Leroy Carlson (1914-1999) ? Cecil Burke Day (1934-1978) ? Louis Jacob Dinkler (1864-1928) ? Eugene Chase Eppley (1884-1958) ? Roy C. Kelley (1905-1997) ? Arnold S. Kirkeby (1901-1962) ? Julius Manger (1868-1937) ? Robert R. Meyer (1882-1947) ? Albert Pick, Jr. (1895-1977) ? Jay Pritzker (1922-1999) ? Harris Rosen (1939) ? Ian Schrager (1946) ? Vernon B. Stouffer (1901-1974) ? William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915) ? Robert E. Woolley (1935) ? Stephen Allen Wynn (1942) As you will note, four of these great American hoteliers are alive and productive as I write this sequel: Harris Rosen, Ian Schrager, Robert Woolley and Steve Wynn.
Author : The Lewis Publishing Company
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010323143
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania written by The Lewis Publishing Company and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : H. Randolph Holmes, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578480473
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Elevating the Human Spirit written by H. Randolph Holmes, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elevating the Human Spirit, the Architecture of Glave & Holmes compiles the work of a firm that has, for over fifty years, celebrated and studied the values and principles that gave rise to the rich and uniquely American tradition in architecture. Fascination with this legacy of tradition, which has shaped the cities, towns, villages, and landscapes of the nation began with the firm's founders and remains a strong pulse in the firm's work today.
Author : Jennifer Sopko
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781609495824
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Ligonier Valley Vignettes written by Jennifer Sopko and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secluded between Laurel Mountain and Chestnut Ridge, the Ligonier Valley has been the mountain playground of western Pennsylvania since the nineteenth century. Yet this picturesque retreat was at the tumultuous center of history--during the French and Indian War, Fort Ligonier was key to the British strategy, and in the late nineteenth century, the Ligonier Valley Rail Road helped transform the industry of the region. Author Jennifer Sopko traces the story of the valley and its residents through a series of fascinating vignettes. From the earliest histories to nostalgic reminiscences of the Ligonier Opera House, socials at the Valley Dairy ice cream parlor and bygone days at Idlewild Park, Sopko captures the history and spirit of the Ligonier Valley and its communities.
