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| The Abbott Hotel, 721 West Belmont (JWB, 2011) |
One of my favorite
signs in the city – the display for the Abbott Hotel at 721 West Belmont. The sign tells you everything you need
to know . . . it comes straight from a different time, a time when Chevy
Bel-Airs, Plymouth Furys, and Mercury Montereys rolled up and down Belmont.
Imagine . . .
checking into a room with air conditioning AND color television. For free!
Although times have
changed, the Abbott hasn’t.
If you use your imagination, you might picture poor old Miss Havisham up
there in a room on the third floor, watching a Philco with the color all wrong
and the sound too loud.
And, if you read
the reviews, the hotel staff fits the motif, characters, seemingly, straight
out of a Dickens novel.
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