Word: innning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Invitation. In Haleiwa, T.H., burglars approached the closed rear door of the Crash Inn...
...Nellie Coffman celebrated her 80th birthday by riding out to a picnic at the base of towering (10,831 ft.) Mount San Jacinto. There she got 82 birthday cakes ("two to grow on") from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
...Jacinto for $5,000. She set up a tent for herself, rented the three bedrooms in the house to guests, usually folks with tuberculosis or asthma. Gradually she expanded the house, but it took her until 1919 to show her first profit. As a village grew up around her inn, she bought another 35 acres of land...
...Reality. In 1924, as Nellie had predicted, the paved highway came, not long after she and her sons, George Roberson, now 60 (by her first husband) and Earl Coffman, now 55, had borrowed $35,000 to build the first concrete buildings which are now part of the rambling Desert Inn, with its tile-roofed guest houses, swimming pool and tennis court. They continued expanding through 1930, when the depression caught them $675,000 in debt. Not until 1945 did Nellie manage to pay off all her debts...
Since V-J day, the inn and Palm Springs have boomed as never before. The 115 assorted hotels, luxury auto courts and apartment hotels will take care of between 40,000 and 50,000 guests between now and next May. The inn alone, which charges from $15 to $25 a day for a single room with meals, hopes to gross...