Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million San Francisco Hilton was planned to be unique among world hotels. It would ingeniously combine the best features of a hotel and a motel. On seven of its 18 floors, rooms would sur round a garage core, built under a roof garden and serviced by a spiral ramp. A guest could drive in, pick up his key without getting out of his car, and drive to his room, parking his car right outside. But to San Francisco's Chief Fire Marshal Albert E. Hayes, the guardian of the city's antiquated building code, the hotel...
During more than a year of tedious negotiating, Hayes demanded 140 separate changes, and Tabler gave in on 124. The changes and delays added $2,000,000 to costs. But to give in on the remaining 16 would throw building costs so high that the project would be uneconomical. Hilton's attorney finally took the fight to the California district court. There last week Tabler won. The court ordered the city to issue a building permit. Appeals by the city may delay the actual start, despite a plea from San Francisco merchants to let the court decision stand...
...million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods. Since building costs have skyrocketed (the Washington Statler Hilton built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub...
...masterminds of baseball's American League put their masterminds together in Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel, decided to award their Washington, D.C. franchise to none other than retired Air Force General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 56, now Federal Aviation Administrator. Longtime Baseball Fan Quesada must quit his Government job to organize the club, which will fill the vacancy left when the unwinning Senators team moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul last month. Estimated cost of the franchise: $3,500,000. Says Quesada: "I don't have that, but I've got backers...
Kennedy, who will make the Statler Hilton Hotel his headquarters, is scheduled to arrive at Logan Airport at 6 p.m. At 8 p.m. he will leave his hotel for a giant political rally at Boston Garden. More than 800,000 people are expected to turn out to watch the hour long motorcade...