To: JBW1949
Close. It was the Shoreham Hotel in DC.
5 posted on
07/14/2019 10:32:36 AM PDT by
bobby.223
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To: bobby.223
It was??? I thought it was Watergate...It’s been since early ‘70’s when I read it...
7 posted on
07/14/2019 10:45:16 AM PDT by
JBW1949
To: bobby.223
In the summer of 1974 my father was working as a construction project manager renovating the place for American Airlines which had bought the Shoreham. My older brother who was off from college for the summer and he and I were working there. The place was a dump. It had been the ''grand dame'' of DC hotels in it's day but I think it's time had passed. This was during the Summer of Watergate and even as an 18 year old kid I knew something historic was happening . I remember also in the hotels cocktail lounge a brash, new young comedian doing political satire was packing them in. His name was Mark Russel.
32 posted on
07/14/2019 4:35:03 PM PDT by
jmacusa
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