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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week he had his new business. It was a spa, Arrowhead Springs Hotel, in the San Bernardino Mountains near Riverside, 70 miles east of Hollywood, built over hot mineral springs and fitted for healthful Hollywood holidays with everything from mud baths to bars, from deck chairs to ski slides, minimum rates $13 a day (American plan). At Arrowhead for the opening were such gentry as Arturo Toscanini, Ernst Lubitsch, Edward G. Robinson, Sam Goldwyn. A few days later Arrowhead opened its "curatory," complete with steam caves in which magnates and stars began tentatively to stew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Toothpicks and Swizzlesticks | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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