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Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
Chidude84
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Date: October 13, 2010 02:59AM
Hey all,
Does anybody have any pictures of any hotels in the Uptown area? I've tried googling to find some but no luck. I'm talking about the Viceroy & Lawrence Hotel in particular. I found some old postcards of some other hotels in the area but no such luck for these two.
Does anybody have any pictures of any hotels in the Uptown area? I've tried googling to find some but no luck. I'm talking about the Viceroy & Lawrence Hotel in particular. I found some old postcards of some other hotels in the area but no such luck for these two.
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
Chipast
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Date: October 13, 2010 05:17PM
Wasn't the Viceroy on the 1500 block of W. Warren????????.
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: October 13, 2010 07:33PM
I found these two postcards:
[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20g-o/lawrence%20hotel%20new.JPG]New Lawrence Hotel[/url]
[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20p-z/viceroy%20hotel.jpg]Viceroy Hotel[/url] <--cool vantage point
[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20g-o/lawrence%20hotel%20new.JPG]New Lawrence Hotel[/url]
[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20p-z/viceroy%20hotel.jpg]Viceroy Hotel[/url] <--cool vantage point
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
222psm
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Date: October 14, 2010 10:29AM
I see from Google maps that they are both still standing, are they apts/condos now?
very cool looking buildings. Very nice postcards wayoutwardell.
very cool looking buildings. Very nice postcards wayoutwardell.
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
Chipast
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Date: October 14, 2010 06:42PM
Wasn't there one on Montrose, Just east of Sheridan?. That had a fire in the late 1960's?.
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
Chidude84
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Date: October 16, 2010 01:17AM
They're both actually retirement centers now, The Lawrence Hotel was pretty swanky in the old days, with all their rooms being supplied with Marshall Field's ware and it even has(had) an indoor pool , golf practice center, handball courts, exercise gymnasium, and rooftop garden with views of Lake Michigan. The Viceroy is now called the Lorelei, it's right on Lawrence and Kenmore, and during it's prime had an indoor pool too and had a famous restaurant known as the Viceroy Palais, which was known for it's Chinese/American food and jazz music
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
Tim
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Date: October 19, 2010 05:47PM
As kids we'd frequent the New Lawrence Hotel pool. It was probably the first indoor pool I'd been in. Memory serves, it was $0.50 to get in.
Re: Uptown Hotels
Posted by:
mark
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Date: November 22, 2010 03:14PM
Here's a great blog that features many of Uptown's old hotels.
http://uptownhistory.compassrose.org/
http://uptownhistory.compassrose.org/
