[CBQ] hotels

[Conrad Cheatham <okete12000@yahoo.com>]

   The thread on old RR hotels has been very interesting. It is a reminder of a 
bygone era before the chain motels took over the country. The old hotels didn't 
have most of the things that modern motels offer - air conditioning, swimming 
pools, etc, but they offered other things that the chains don't offer - charm, 
steam engine smoke, etc. Last year one of the model railroad magazines had an 
article on old hotels out west and the adventure of staying in most - heating 
bricks to warm beds, using slop jars, in house restaurants, etc.
   Here in the small town of Elsberry, MO there used to be a hotel that used to 
sit across the street from the Burlington depot. I don't know if many railroad 
people stayed there, but it probably served Q passengers. It closed in the 
1960s 
and torn down. It went by a variety of names over the decades - City Hotel, 
Reid 
Hotel, etc.
   Conrad Cheatham

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