[Magdalen] home from Chicago

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In a message dated 7/12/2017 2:07:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
revcphillips at gmail.com writes:

>  Imagine the Palmer House filled with (mainly) men in various  
configurations>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
 
 
For many decades the Palmer House was the headquarters for the
annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. always
timed around the first weekend in Advent.
 
It had become a bit frayed  by the mid-1970's, and the meeting
was moved out of Chicago to a variety of locales across the USA.
I am happy to hear that there has been some refurbishing, and that
it's sister hotel over on S. Michigan, the Conrad Hilton, has been
similarly updated.
 
That style with red brick lower stories and limestone upper stories
was very much the norm for good hotels in the 1920's and 1930's
so much so that they fairly recently built a hotel in this retro style  in
Minneapolis.
 
I do have memories of the rather awful tedium of checking out
of the Palmer House after the derm meeting before the advent
of computerization.  It was a nightmare, with long lines at all  the
check out locations, and much arguing between hotel personnel
and patrons checking out.
 
 
 
David S.