Stories About The Hotel Westward Ho

Author : Erling Eaton,Mariam Cheshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798744961497

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Stories about the Hotel Westward Ho by Erling Eaton,Mariam Cheshire Pdf

It was built in the Roaring Twenties. Tales were told of gangster Bugsy Siegel bringing champagne through underground tunnels to outmaneuver prohibition. It opened in 1927, "ablaze in incandescent splendor, 375 feet above Phoenix streets, its exterior aglow with flaming cheer." By plane and train, the rich and famous came to party in a Cowtown in the Wild West. The 93 year old Westward Ho , once the swankiest hotel in the West, is now housing for low-income seniors and the mobility-impaired. For 33 years it reigned as the tallest building in Phoenix. As times changed, it was sold, bankrupted and resold. Construction and painters would rework and rename the ballrooms, coffee shops and bars. I lived there for a challenging, happy twelve years. Things I never expected just happened. A catalyst of people entered my life. Falling in love at 75 - a walking-on-air surprise. During the days that the Westward Ho Historical Group existed, we tramped through every accessible place, basement to 15th floor, finding unused stairs and forgotten rooms. Roaming through the underground, up the back stairs and above the stage we scuffed through years of rat droppings to bring down reminders of former glory. Long gone are the Thunderbirds, a.k.a. kachinas that adorned the Thunderbird Room and were spectators to the dramas that happened to famous names and family grandmothers. Or do they still watch? Those on the Ghost Tours wonder. This book will fit on your bookshelf if you're curious about the Westward Ho, or like history, or appreciate a love story . The black and white indistinct pictures taken with an old camera are included because there's no place else to see them.

Author : Stacia Deutsch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781540260161

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The Ghostly Tales of Phoenix by Stacia Deutsch Pdf

Ghost stories from America's Valley of the Sun have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Welcome to the spooky streets of Phoenix, Arizona! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know that the booming, modern metropolis of Phoenix is a city filled with ghosts? Like the spirits who haunt the Smurthwaite House, which sits on the grounds of Phoenix's oldest cemetery? Or the restless souls who linger within the walls of Phoenix's Mystery Castle, old train depots, and eerie historic mansions? Can you believe the mysterious Hohokam tribe, whose people once inhabited the Pueblo Grande Ruins and later vanished, may not have vanished after all? Pulled right from history, these ghostly tales will change the way you see Phoenix forever, and have you sleeping with the lights on!

Author : Bradford Luckingham
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0816511160

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Phoenix by Bradford Luckingham Pdf

More than half of all Arizonans live in Phoenix, the center of one of the most urbanized states in the nation. This history of the Sunbelt metropolis traces its growth from its founding in 1867 to its present status as one of the ten largest cities in the United States. Drawing on a wide variety of archival materials, oral accounts, promotional literature, and urban historical studies, Bradford Luckingham presents an urban biography of a thriving city that for more than a century has been an oasis of civilization in the desert Southwest. First homesteaded by pioneers bent on seeing a new agricultural empire rise phoenix-like from ancient Hohokam Indian irrigation ditches and farming settlements, Phoenix became an agricultural oasis in the desert during the late 1800s. With the coming of the railroads and the transfer of the territorial capital to Phoenix, local boosters were already proclaiming it the new commercial center of Arizona. As the city also came to be recognized as a health and tourist mecca, thanks to its favorable climate, the concept of "the good life" became the centerpiece of the city's promotional efforts. Luckingham follows these trends through rapid expansion, the Depression, and the postwar boom years, and shows how economic growth and quality of life have come into conflict in recent times.

Author : Michael F. Logan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822971108

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Desert Cities by Michael F. Logan Pdf

Examines the natural and economic resource competition between Phoenix and Tucson and the other factors contributing to the divergent growth of the two cities.

Author : Jana Bommersbach
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781615952663

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The Trunk Murderess by Jana Bommersbach Pdf

If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage. If history is right, she was sentenced to die but "cheated the gallows" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times. If history is right, she only got her freedom at age 66-after serving more time than any other convicted murderer in the history of the nation—because Arizona was finally tired of punishing her. But if history is wrong, Winnie Ruth Judd's life was squandered in a horrible miscarriage of justice. Award-winning journalist Jana Bommersbach reinvestigates the twisted, bizarre murder case that has captivated the nation for decades. She not only uncovers evidence long hidden, but gets Winnie Ruth Judd to break her life-long silence and finally speak. In telling the story of this American crime legend, Bommersbach also tells the story of Phoenix, Arizona—a backwater town that would become a major American city—and the story of a unique moment in American history filled with social taboos. But most of all, she tells the story of a woman with the courage to survive.

Author : Robert A. Melikian
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738571415

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Hotel San Carlos by Robert A. Melikian Pdf

On the corner of Central Avenue and Monroe Street, in the center of downtown Phoenix, is the historic Hotel San Carlos. Local Native Americans once worshipped a god of learning in this same area, and so early white settlers chose the site for the city's first school, the Little Adobe School, in 1873. After the Little Adobe School, the location served as a ballpark, a brick schoolhouse, the Central School, and finally the Hotel San Carlos, which opened in March 1928. The first hotel in Phoenix to boast steam heat, elevators, and air-conditioning, Hotel San Carlos has a remarkable story and has even seen its share of movie stars, including Mae West, Gene Autry, and Marilyn Monroe. Clark Gable always stayed in the same corner room on the fourth floor so he could people-watch. Even the friendly ghost of Leone Jensen, who appears regularly at the foot of the guest beds, has added to the unique legacy and continuing popularity of Hotel San Carlos.

Author : Jon Talton
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781464209604

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The Bomb Shelter by Jon Talton Pdf

The past never rests easy in Arizona. Forty years ago, a Phoenix reporter was killed by a car bomb in one of America's most notorious crimes. Three men went to prison—but was there more to the story of Charles Page's assassination? More than three low-level players? Did a kingpin order the hit and get away with it? And what was the real motive? Despite the work of teams of journalists and law and legal professionals, no one yet knows why. It's a case custom-made for David Mapstone, the historian-turned-sheriff's deputy. And suddenly Mapstone's boss, newly re-elected Sheriff Mike Peralta, promises to reopen the investigation into the only murder of an American journalist, in the US, in modern times. Why? The promise triggers new murders. The crimes are reenactments of Phoenix's mob-riddled past, where gangsters rubbed elbows with the city's elite amid crosscurrents of corrupt cops, political payoffs, gambling, prostitution, and murder, all shielded by the sunshine image of a resort city. But who is committing them? A former soldier who is an explosives expert and deadly with a knife? A woman with screen-siren looks and extraordinary computer skills? Or someone out of Phoenix's seamy, swinging Seventies with secrets to keep, even though the major power brokers are dead? Mapstone will need all the help he can get. He enlists a PhD candidate and Black Lives Matter activist to help him comb through sealed archives of the original bombing. Mapstone's wife, Lindsey, a top hacker, rejoins the Sheriff's Office and plays a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the perp or perps—one that goes from the digital to the real and risky world. Somewhere in the house of mirrors surrounding the Page case they must find the key that connects the past to the present. In this swiftly paced, compelling new novel by journalist Jon Talton, the ninth in the David Mapstone series, a big city is trying to keep its darkest history off-limits.

Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134638727

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The Hieroglyphics of Space by Neil Leach Pdf

An edited volume containing contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy and US studies - including Andrew Benjamin, Barry Curtis, Neil Leach, Steven Pile and David Frisby.

Author : Philip VanderMeer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826348937

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Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860-2009 by Philip VanderMeer Pdf

Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling suburb, Phoenix, by all environmental logic, should not exist. Yet despite its extremely hot and dry climate and its remoteness, Phoenix has grown into a massive metropolitan area. This exhaustive study examines the history of how Phoenix came into being and how it has sustained itself, from its origins in the 1860s to its present status as the nation’s fifth largest city. From the beginning, Phoenix sought to grow, and although growth has remained central to the city’s history, its importance, meaning, and value have changed substantially over the years. The initial vision of Phoenix as an American Eden gave way to the Cold War Era vision of a High Tech Suburbia, which in turn gave way to rising concerns in the late twentieth century about the environmental, social, and political costs of growth. To understand how such unusual growth occurred in such an improbable location, Philip VanderMeer explores five major themes: the natural environment, urban infrastructure, economic development, social and cultural values, and public leadership. Through investigating Phoenix’s struggle to become a major American metropolis, his study also offers a unique view of what it means to be a desert city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556033411414

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Central Phoenix/East Valley Corridor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623760038

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Arizona, the Grand Canyon State by Best Books on Pdf

compiled by workers of the Writersí Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Arizona ; completely rev. by Joseph Miller ; edited by Henry G. Alsberg. Rev. ed.

Author : Andrew L. Cleveland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Sex
ISBN : 0883654768

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Dirty Stories for All Occasions by Andrew L. Cleveland Pdf

Author : Charles Kingsley
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048571254

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Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley Pdf

Kingsley's historical romance of the Spanish Main, first published in 1855. From the coral reefs of the Barbados to the jungles and fabled cities of the Orinoco and on to the great sea battle with the Spanish Armada, this vibrant novel captures the daring spirit of Elizabethan adventurers who sailed with Sir Francis Drake. Contains a table of contents and listing of illustrations.

Author : Nicola E. MacLeod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781003858102

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Literary Fiction Tourism by Nicola E. MacLeod Pdf

This timely and insightful book critically reviews the synergistic relationship between books, literary culture, and the practices of tourism. The volume sets literary fiction tourism within its historical, theoretical, and managerial context and explores the current provision of literary tourism sites and experiences. It focuses on literary fiction and the interplay between imaginative worlds, literary reputation, and tourism. The volume explores a variety of literary tourism forms in a global context such as biographical sites, imaginative sites, literary trails, and book towns, identifying the challenges associated with interpreting and managing them for visitors. Current international case studies allow readers to understand this most ancient of touristic activity within its contemporary context. This book offers new insight into the diversity of the literary tourism landscape, the range of experiences and visitors and the variety of interpretive responses that may be appropriate. The relationship between literary fiction and other forms of media such as film and digital culture are also explored. International in scope, this volume will be of interest to students of tourism, heritage studies, cultural studies, and media studies, as well those interested in literary tourism more specifically.

Author : Charles G. Harper
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547250937

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The North Devon Coast by Charles G. Harper Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The North Devon Coast" by Charles G. Harper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.