Hotel Coronado, St Louis 1920s Drive-in with the New York Times

with the New York Times noting that Mr Kelly’s dancing girls and boys “stamp

Scores of celebrities patronised the Biltmore and in 1927 the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences decided after a meeting in the hotel’s Crystal Ballroom to launch an awards ceremony called The Oscars

He later produced a series of fantasy drawings for the front cover of The American Weekly depicting girls as birds

The hotel was damaged by German bombs in 1940 and eventually demolished in 1957/8

then a 'bohemian' area full of artists who wanted to turn it into San Francisco's version of Paris's Montmartre

Hotel Coronado, St Louis 1920s Drive-in with the New York TimesThe Hotel Coronado, an ornate and historic building designed by St Louis architect Preston J. Bradshaw, opened in 1923. It was named after the Spanish explorer Francisco Vazquez de Coronado who led an expedition into the American southwest in 1540 41. He had heard rumors of seven fabled cities where the houses were made of gold. They did not exist, of course, but one of his scouting parties discovered the Grand Canyon. During Prohibition, the hotel