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"Good to the last drop"
Ghost signs uncovered
The Nashville version of the Teddy Roosevelt "Good to the Last Drop" legend is that he was dining at the Maxwell House Hotel itself when he said that. Since the Maxwell House was the #1 hotel in town at that time he could have visited/dined there."Good to the Last Drop. The subject of this post is a peculiar association of Maxwell House with Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. ... Well, it is often claimed that Teddy Roosevelt, in 1907, coined the slogan after the coffee was served to him at the Hermitage, a famous Nashville resort that was originally Andrew Jackson's home."
Not sure if this is true or just "legend".
I may have already shared this one, I can't remember.
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^ Great photo! It makes me wonder if this specific stretch of waterway still exists and, if it does, how it looks now.
^ Great photo! It makes me wonder if this specific stretch of waterway still exists and, if it does, how it looks now.
There's a "When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of pier" joke in there somewhere. Gimme a minute, I'll find it.
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The last time my wife and I were in Chicago one of her cousins all but insisted we accompany her on a boat tour of the downtown area because she had always wanted to do it and figured having a couple of out-of-town "tourists" like us was the perfect excuse. There are indeed a number of older buildings along those waterways (and throughout Chicago) that have been repurposed over the decades, but now it all looks so different from that 1900 photo that someone would have to know exactly where that Chicago Railway Terminal Elevator Co. building was/is in order to make a definitive comparison.View attachment 141147
I haven't checked in detail for current "fotos"
but looks like there were/are several old buildings which might be converted to business offices or hotels.
https://www.cityofchicago.org/conte...rewery_Tied_Houses_and_One_Brewery_Stable.pdf