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Chicago Illinois~Edgewater Beach Hotel~Marine Dining Room~big bands~IL
Chicago Illinois~Edgewater Beach Hotel~Marine Dining Room~big bands~IL

Chicago Illinois~Edgewater Beach Hotel~Marine Dining Room~big bands~IL

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Availability: 16 in stock
  • Era: White Border (c. 1915-1930)
  • Type: Printed (Lithograph)
  • Postage Condition: Unposted
  • City/Region: Chicago
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Postcard is in excellent condition. A little wear at corners and edges.
  • State: Illinois
  • Theme: US States, Cities & Towns
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    VINTAGE ANTIQUE POSTCARD
    Chicago Illinois~Edgewater Beach Hotel~Marine Dining Room~big bands~IL
    Published by:
    Max Rigot Selling Agency, American Colortype Co., Chicago
    Printed on back:
    Postmarked:
    Guests still recall the Beach Walk,
    the Marine Dining Room and its strictly formal dress code,
    the radio shows and television broadcasts.
    The hotel was known for hosting big bands such as those of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Xavier Cugat, Dan Russo, Ted Fiorito, and Wayne King, which were also broadcast on the hotel's own radio station, a precursor to WGN, with the call letters WEBH.
    In the winter months, the bands played in the Marine Dining Room
    and, in the summer months, outdoors on the Beach Walk.
    The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox. The first section was built in 1916, located between Sheridan Road and Lake Michigan at Berwyn Avenue. An adjacent south tower building was added in 1924.
    The hotel closed abruptly on December 21, 1967, following bankruptcy proceedings. The building was leased to Loyola University in the fall of 1968 for use as a dormitory to house 300 students. Demolition of the hotel complex began in the fall of 1969 and was completed by 1971.
    Following the hotel's demolition, three high-rise condominiums of modern architecture (Edgewater Plaza, Park Tower Condominium, and The Breakers at Edgewater Beach) replaced the Edgewater Beach Hotel and its olympic-size swimming pool and putting greens, leaving only the Edgewater Beach Apartments and its gardens as a vestige of the resort's elegance. The Edgewater Beach Apartments to the north were completed as part of the hotel resort complex in 1928. The "sunset pink" apartments complemented the "sunrise yellow" hotel in a similar architectural style. The apartments remain standing.
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