Hotel Coronado, St Louis 1920s Bismark Hotel It was a huge and

It was a huge and elegant place with ornate ceilings

only three members of the kitchen – out of 22 in total – were foreign

there’s a BC Dinner at stepped-up tempo for theater curtain beaters

But before the first tea shop opened

the interior menu is quite faded but the date is still visible

Hotel Coronado, St Louis 1920s Bismark Hotel It was a huge andThe 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