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Title: The 1910 trip of the H.M.M.B.A. to California and the Pacific coast
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association Hotels
Publisher: San Francisco, Press of Bolte & Braden company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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andria. On the marble stairway to the mezzanine floor are quiet writing places,where one may be within immediate reach of the office and yet entirelysecluded from its noise and bustle. Naturally such a hotel possesses its own ice and refrigeration plant,engine room and all the modern equipment that goes with a strictly first-class hotel. The name of a hotel often has much to do with its success and popu-larity. It does not make a bad hotel good nor assist in the management,but it does often assist in the publicity end of the proposition. When thebuilders of this hotel selected the name Angelus and purchased a copy ofthe world-famed picture of the world-famed artist. Millet, as a trade-mark,they did a very clever thing, for not only was the idea original but thesubject harmonized with the name of the city and lent a new quality ofinterest and inc;uiry to hotel names. The copv itself is as perfect as the original, and is by J. F. Goldstein, aman whose work is highly esteemed by experts.
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TO CALIFORXIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST 115 Hotel Alexandria The headquarters for the great festivities were at the Hotel Alexandria,where registration took place and the programs, banquet tickets, etc., weregiven out. The cover of the program bears a map of the coast line fromSan Diego to Eureka, California, and is engraved and printed in gold andblack, the ocean in blue. The first page of the program reads: Air. H. M.M. B. A.—Heres Southern California—Its yours—Accept it with compli-ments of your host, the Southern California Hotel Mens Association.Along with this program was handed a book of some thirty coupon ticketsgiving admission to all the festivities of the week, each coupon being headedwith H. M. M. B. A. and at foot the name of the entertaining association,while inside was given the days or hours program with time and all neces-sary instructions. Here also was distributed the very handsome badgepresented by the hosts. This official badge was the real thing. It is madein t

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