Word: alcazar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...apprenticeship, he shared a draughting board with John Merven Carrère. They quit McKim, Mead & White and hung out their own shingle. Soon they had a commission from Henry M. Flagler, pioneer Florida exploiter, to build two hotels in St. Augustine, the Ponce de Leon and the Alcazar. Wide was the comment aroused by their romantic, freely adapted Spanish style. More commissions came and the rirm was established...
Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years...
...banquet hall in the Alcazar Hotel was transformed into a temporary airplane hangar. Five hundred guests sat down to dinner; among them Herbert C. Hoover, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Anthony H. G. Fokker, Owen D. Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt. All talked aviation, particularly commercial aviation; all honored Van Lear Black, potent banker as well as newspaper solon, for his ten-month survey of commercial flying abroad...