Searching the Web for pictures of old Pennsylvania hotels I found a blog with a long, detailed, and fascinating piece about the Hotel Walton in Philadelphia. Looks like I'm not the only one who likes to collect these histories.
And then I came across the very grand Bellevue Stratford:
I was reminded of this place yesterday while listening to an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, a radio show from the 1950s. Johnny Dollar was a freelance insurance investigator and for this particular case he traveled to Philadelphia, where he stayed at the Bellevue Stratford, convenient to the offices he went to on Walnut Street. This postcard looks like it's from the 1970s, which would place it more in the era of the Legionnaires' disease outbreak and just before (little-known fact) Bob Beru was the head concierge (his day job, that is).
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