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That's what they did in those days. The shorter building is the Hampshire and when they needed more room they built the Savoy but with an entrance from the Hampshire so all were dry in the rain.

This either Room 703 or 721. This was actually in the newest wing built in the late 80's (I think). The Savoy.

Was that Room 443 in the Hampshire. For internal calls we had to dial 1 then the room number.

This seems to be the "cheap" rooms of the main building. Each of the buildings rooms were designated with different numeric prefixes (the Main was 0 or 1).... 2 and 3's the outer buildings, Hampshire (401.. etc), Essex (501.. etc.), Regency (601... etc.), and Savoy (701.. etc). Also the Savoy had two suites, one was 721, with a heart shaped tub.

This appears to me to be the staircase that connected the Lower Lobby (winter coffee shop/summer gift shop on the right) with the upper South Lobby. Directly behind the lens were pay phone booths.

radical ed, i want to meet up with you before they tear it down and get a tour, i only been in once so far and it was awesome. my sn is autumnredemption

Played poker there as an adult the whole summer. The bigger stakes games were on the left and right far ends (on nice days outdoors on the card patio). Mornings 9:30 - 12:45, Afternoons 2-6, Evenings 8:15 - 12;30 or 1 AM. In between we ate in the dining room.

This seems to be a pic taken from the "Reservations Desk"... to the right is the Service Desk for bellhop and carhop service and straight ahead on the left short wall (not seen) was the elevator to the Essex and Hampshire wings and the elevator door only opened on this side in the lower lobby; on other floors a second door opened on the right.

Aw, {Twug}

:-)

That was the 2nd floor lobby with the bar to the right next to the main dining room. Spent every summer there from 1974 through 1998...

I am absolutely positive, however, that you don't mean this particular work of vandalism, as this is fairly crappy work. No, let me rephrase that - this is "piss poor," to quote my mother. :-)

that is really a good picture, and byberry is an awesome place

Not so safe for suicidal patients!

Graffiti is an art. yeah,it may be in places it should'nt , but some of us are really good and just want to show it.

Lynne, yet another fab post. I suspect most of the '"death = cool" brigade are 13 year-old wannabe goths who talk about corpses and cadavers yet would no doubt wee themselves if they ever came across a real one - especially in one of these places. The same people who hang around drinking cider in graveyards and breaking into crypts so they can post it on their cliched web pages with a load of dumb poetry to show how very 'alternative' they are. Fortunately they usually grow out of it. I think you were very restrained in your choice of the word 'asshat'. Anyway my Mom has a saying... "the dead can't hurt you, it's the living you need to watch out for!" So true...