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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Mexican Gulf: 1901
Pass Christian, Mississippi, circa 1901. "Mexican Gulf Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Southern Gothic
Can't put my finger on it, but there's something vaguely unsettling about this place. I wonder if it was ever considered to be haunted?
Destroyed by fire in 1917
There's a nice article in the March 13, 1962 edition of the Biloxi Sun Herald about this hotel. Evidently President Wilson stayed there in 1913. Pretty fancy place for the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.
Cartographically Correct
So glad they got it right in those days with the name.
MEXICAN Gulf, eh?
No name change for this hotel!
Which Gulf?
Soon to be retroactively named American Gulf Hotel!
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