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The Irma Hotel is a landmark in Cody, Wyoming. It was built by William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, the city's co-founder and namesake who named it after his daughter Irma Cody. A focal point is a famous back bar made of cherry that was a gift given by Queen Victoria to Buffalo Bill. [2]
English: Original solid brass cash register on the magnificent bar in the Irma Hotel built by Buffalo Bill Cody. The bar was a gift from Queen Victoria. The bar was a gift from Queen Victoria. Date
California Los Angeles: 1908 [21] 1999 [18] Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant: New York New York City: 1913 [22] 1999 [18] The Berghoff: Illinois Chicago: 1898 [23] 1999 [18] Original Pancake House: Oregon Portland: 1953 [24] 1999 [18] Helena's Hawaiian Foods: Hawaii Honolulu: 1946 [25] 2000 [7] Swan Oyster Depot: California San Francisco ...
The same 1910 census document lists him as being born in Texas, and his mother, Molly Gant, as having a father who was born in Louisiana. In a 1987 interview for The Watumull Foundation Oral History Project, Beach claims that he spent his early school days in Mandeville, Louisiana, as well as the Colony of Jamaica and Texas. [6]
The nearly 100-year-old Topanga Ranch Motel was destroyed in the blaze on Tuesday night. The motel, initially bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1929, boasted 30 rooms that served as "an ...
Consuelo B. Marshall (1962): [94] [95] First female (and African American female) to work in the City Attorney's Office for Los Angeles (1962) Patricia Phillips (1968): [413] First female to serve as the President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, California (1984)
Both the lounge and the hotel play a small yet significant role in the history of the Watergate political affair in 1972. The high command of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (Richard Nixon) in 1972 was staying at the hotel during a West Coast fundraising trip, and having a breakfast meeting in the Polo Lounge when Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy placed his fateful call to Committee ...
Historic bars and saloons in San Francisco were some of the earliest businesses during the formation of the city. Many of the first businesses to spring up in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush era (1848–1855) supported the influx of new men, including bars and saloons, [1] breweries, [2] horse racing tracks, [3] and others forms of entertainment.