March 28, 2016
Hol and Group - Some brief thoughts on this image:
(1) From the brick and timber construction, almost certainly somewhere on
Lines East. If Lines West, the structure would've most likely have been all
timber construction.
(2) From the utilitarian/functional construction, the hotel is
definitely not a "finer" establishment such as you'd find in a downtown location
catering to the general public.
(3) I'd speculate this hotel was specifically constructed mostly for the
use of railroad employees, most likely at a division point where there would be
a large number of crew changes requiring rest facilities.
(4) As touched upon in earlier posts about other "CB&Q-named"
businesses, I'm confident that this hotel was not owned by the CB&Q, but
rather by some business interest that used the railroad's name to attract Q
employees to stay there between runs.
(5) I'd also speculate that the "Goddard Hotel" name is the name of
the owning family or business and not the name of the town in which it was
located.
Any one else have any thoughts or comments? Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
In a message dated 3/28/2016 11:22:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
[Attachment(s) from Hol Wagner
included below]
The attached postcard image is currently for sale on eBay, and the seller
has identified it as being at Goddard, Kan., presumably because the small sign
near the door says Goddard Hotel. But Goddard, Kansas, it just west of
Wichita and is certainly not on the Q. Because the large sign says
CB&Q Hotel, I would think it would be located somewhere on the CB&Q
proper, that is, on what in the 20th Century became Lines East. If it
were west of the Missouri River it would have been called either the
Burlington Hotel or more likely the B&M Hotel. The seller probably
settled on Kansas since that was the only town named Goddard he could find,
and indeed Goddard, Kan., appears to be the only community of that name in the
U.S. Unfortunately, the postcard is not canceled, so we don't know where
or when it was mailed. So my guess would be that Goddard is the name of
the hotel's owner or operator and that it was more commonly known as the
CB&Q Hotel because it was somewhere along the Q. I'm hoping somebody
in the group may know something about it, if only where it was located.
Hol