Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trend seems to have surfaced first-and most elegantly-in San Francisco, where in 1976 Robert and Marily Kavanaugh opened an establishment in a tiny Victorian mews house off Union Street, calling itself simply the Bed and Breakfast Inn. Today there are 15 B & Bs around San Francisco, and their rooms (generally $40 to $80 per night) are tougher to book than space at the city's large luxury hotels, especially on weekends...
...just to economy but to personal touches and old-fashioned charm: fireplaces and pieced quilts, lace curtains and canopied beds, fresh flowers and fresh-baked croissants, and the willingness of most hosts to book theater tickets and advise on restaurants and bus routes. At the Bed and Breakfast Inn, a decanter of sherry sits invitingly in the dining room and fortune cookies appear on each guest's pillow at night. At the Spreckels Mansion, a colonial revival house saved from destruction two years ago by San Francisco Fashion Designer Jonathan Shannon and Architectural Restorer Jeffrey Ross, guests gather each...
...South Carolina, Charleston's Sword Gate Inn, an 18th century house belonging to David and Suzanne Redd, rents five antique-filled bedrooms for $55 per night; they come with a sumptuous breakfast (including freshly squeezed orange juice, cinnamon apple casserole, homemade sausage balls and locally blended "Carolina coffee") and complimentary bicycles for seeing the sights. The Vendue Inn's 18 rooms are organized around an 18th century courtyard, where wine and cheese parties take place each day to the strains of chamber music...
Most B & B proprietors, even those who are full-time innkeepers, are not trying to make big money. Says Suzanne Redd of Charleston's Sword Gate Inn: "We're in it for the pleasure. We love to entertain." Marian Binkley, owner of San Francisco's Hermitage House, agrees: "It isn't a business, it's a hobby. It's like having ten sets of house guests every night. The B & B owner has got to want to mother the world...
...guests are an eclectic lot, including honeymooners and people celebrating anniversaries, an incognito celebrity or two and the occasional businessman. Says Judy Scott, manager of San Francisco's Washington Square Inn: "People who stay at B & Bs should be very independent and the sort who seek things out for themselves...