Otal din Algonquin: Ya fi Kyauta

Otal din Algonquin da farko an tsara shi azaman otal mai zaman kansa tare da ra'ayin yin hayar ɗakuna da ɗakuna marasa kyau a kan haya kowace shekara ga masu haya na dindindin. Lokacin da 'yan kaɗan suka sayar, maigidan ya yanke shawarar mayar da shi zuwa wani otal na wucin gadi, wanda zai sa masa suna "The Puritan." Frank Case, babban manajan kamfanin na farko, ya nuna rashin amincewa kuma ya fadawa maigidan “hakan ya sabawa ruhin kula da masauki. Yana da sanyi, hanawa da damuwa. Ba na son shi. " Lokacin da maigidan ya amsa, "Kana ganin kanka mai wayo ne, a ce ka sami mafi suna," Case ya je laburaren jama'a don gano su waye na farko kuma suka fi ƙarfi a wannan unguwar. Ya yi tuntuɓe a kan Algonquins, yana son kalmar, yana son yadda ta dace da bakin, kuma ya rinjayi maigidan ya karɓe shi.

Algonquin Hotel an tsara shi ta hanyar mai zane Goldwin Starrett tare da ɗakuna 181. Janar Manaja Frank Case ya karbi hayar a 1907 sannan ya sayi otal a 1927. Case ya kasance mai shi kuma manajan har sai da ya mutu a 1946.

Shahararren Algonquin Round Table ya kirkiro ne ta General Manager Case tare da wasu gungun 'yan fim na New York City,' yan jaridu, masu tallata labarai, masu suka da marubuta waɗanda ke haduwa kowace rana a abincin rana da aka fara a watan Yunin 1919. Sun haɗu ne don mafi kyawun shekaru goma a cikin dakin Pergola (yanzu ana kiransa Roomakin Oak). Membobin Yarjejeniyar sun hada da Franklin P. Adams, marubuci; Robert Benchley, mai raha da barkwanci; Heywood Broun, marubuci kuma marubucin wasanni; Marc Connelly, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo; George S. Kaufman, marubucin wasan kwaikwayo da kuma darakta; Dorothy Parker, mawakiya kuma marubuciya; Harold Ross, editan jaridar New Yorker; Robert Sherwood, marubuci kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo; John Peter Toohey, mai yada labarai; da Alexander Woollcott, mai suka da kuma dan jarida. A shekara ta 1930, asalin membersan Rukunin Zagaye sun watse, amma abin da ake kira "iciousunshi Mai Tsanani" ya kasance da rai a cikin ƙwaƙwalwa mai daɗi da mai daɗi. Lokacin da aka tambaye shi abin da ya faru a Teburin Zagaye, Frank Case zai amsa “Me ya faru da tafkin a Fifth Avenue da titin 42nd? Wadannan abubuwan ba su dawwama. Teburin Zagaye ya dade fiye da kowane taro mara tsari wanda na sani. ” An ci gaba da shari'ar. “Ban san wani (rukuni) ba inda yawan nasarar ya yi yawa. Da kyar akwai wani mutum a cikinsu wanda ya kasa sanya sunansa a fagen da yake aiki, kuma yayin da watakila na kasance ba kowa ba ne, na dauki komai a bakin komai, ban kasance wawa ba da ban san cewa wani Tabbataccen kadara ga otal ɗin ta hanyar kasuwanci, da kuma jin daɗin kaina koyaushe don tabbatar da kyakkyawan aboki kowace rana. Wancan, ina tsammanin, yana ɗaya daga cikin abubuwan farin ciki na kiyaye otal musamman idan otal ɗinku kaɗan ne; abokan kirki, kyakkyawar magana, da hangen nesa na rayuwa baki daya. Ba kwa buƙatar yin wani ƙoƙari; ana kawo sabo ne a kowace rana, ana biya kafin lokaci. ”

A watan Oktoba 1946, Ben da Mary Bodne na Charleston, SC, sun sayi Algonquin a kan dala miliyan 1 kawai. Sun yi soyayya da otal din a lokacin amarci. Yayin zamansu, sun hango Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Sinclair Lewis, Eddie Cantor da Beatrice Lily. Ga tsohuwar Mary Mazo (Bodne), Algonquin shine adireshin ƙarshe a cikin odyssey wanda ya fara a Odessa, Ukraine, inda ta kasance ɗa na biyu a cikin babban gidan yahudawa waɗanda suka gudu daga ɓarna lokacin da take jariri. Iyalin Mazo sun yi ƙaura zuwa Charleston, inda mahaifinta Elihu ya buɗe mashawarcin yahudawa na farko a garin. Lokacin da George Gershwin da Du Bose Heyward ke aiki a kan "Porgy da Bess, sun kasance abokan ciniki da yawa. Hakanan zasu tattauna batun ƙirƙirar wasan kwaikwayon a gidan abincin dare a gidan Mazo. Shekaru da yawa bayan haka, al'adun Mazo na karimci zai ci gaba a Algonquin. Mary Bodne ta dafa miyan kaza don Laurence Olivier mai rashin lafiya, kuma ita ce ta yi wa jaririn Simone Signoret, wanda ya kira ta “ɗaya daga cikin abokaina na uku.”

Bodnes sun karbi bakuncin sabon ƙarni na wallafe-wallafe kuma suna nuna mashahuran kasuwanci - kamar marubuci John Henry Falk, lokacin da aka sanya shi cikin baƙar fata kuma aka kore shi daga Hollywood. Alan Jay Lerner da Frederick Loewe sun yi kara sosai yayin da suke aiki a wani sabon kide kide wanda sauran bakin suka koka: wasan kwaikwayon shi ne “My Fair Lady”.

Mista Bodne, wanda ya mutu a shekarar 1992, ya ce zai sayar da Algonquin din ne lokacin da yake bukatar hawan kai. Ya sayar da shi a 1987 ga Aoki Corporation, reshen Brazil na wani kamfanin kasar Japan wanda ya girka na’urori masu zaman kansu a 1991. A 1997, Aoki ya sayar da otal din ga Kamfanin Otal din Camberley wanda ya fara aikin gyara dala miliyan 4. Shugaban kamfanin da aka haifa a Burtaniya, Ian Lloyd-Jones, ya dauki hayar mai tsara zane Alexandra Champalimaud don sabunta wuraren taruwar jama'a ba tare da lalata ji da halayen Algonquin na tarihi ba.

A 2002, Miller Global Properties ta sayi otal ɗin kuma ta ɗauki hayar Otal-otal da wuraren hutawa don sarrafawa da sabunta aikinta. Misali, sun girka tsarin bincike mai kwakwalwa ta hanyar komputa wacce take kwato irin abubuwan da mutum yake so don zuwan baƙi. Bayan gyaran dala miliyan 3, an sake siyar da otal a shekara ta 2005 ga HEI Hotels & Resorts, mai shi da mai gudanar da wasu kaddarorin 25 na cikakken sabis. HEI ya hau kan gyaran dala miliyan $ 4.5 don inganta harabar gidan, gidan cin abinci na Oak Room da cabaret, da Blue Bar, da mashahurin Round Table Room da duk manyan dakuna da dakunan baki.

An sanya Algonquin a New York City Alamar Tarihi a cikin 1987 da kuma Alamar Adabi ta Friendsasa ta Abokan Laburare na Amurka a cikin 1996. Jerin baƙon tarihin Algonquin shine Wanene Wanda yake cikin al'adun duniya; Irving Berlin, Charlie Chaplin, William Faulkner, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Laughton, Maya Angelou, Angela Lansbury, Harpo Marx, Brendan Behan, Noel Coward, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Tom Stoppard, da dai sauransu.

Kwanan nan, otal din Oak Room ya fito da Harry Connick, Jr., Andrea, Marcovicci, Diana Krall, Peter Cinotti, Michael Feinstein, Jane Monheit, Steve Ross, Sandy Stewart da Bill Charlap, Barbara Carroll, Maude Maggart, Karen Akers, a tsakanin wasu.

Lokacin da Frank Case, Babban Manajan farko (kuma daga baya ya mallaki) Algonquin ya rubuta tarihinsa. "Tatsuniyoyin wani Wayward Inn" a cikin 1938, ya nemi baƙi na yau da kullun su rubuta abubuwan da suka tuna. Wadanda suka fi shahara sune Jack Barrymore, Rex Beach, Louis Bromfield, Irvin S. Cobb, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, HL Mencken, Robert Nathan, Frank Sullivan, Louis Untermayer, Henrik Willen Van Loon. Koyaya, matar Frank Case Bertha tana da kalma ta ƙarshe, Ta rubuta:

Oktoba 10, 1938

Ya ku Frankie,

Yanayin wasiƙar zuwa gare ku daga abokai da ƙyar abin da mutum zai iya kiran bugawa; a zahiri yayin karanta su ina tunanin jana'izar inda abokan mamacin suka yi magana mai daɗi, sosai, game da mamacin har sai da (gwauruwa) da ke zaune tsakanin masu makoki, ta jingina ga ƙaramin ɗanta, tana cewa, “Tommy, yi gudu yanzu, leƙa ka duba ko wannan mahaifinka ne a cikin akwatin. ”

Ranar 21 ga Satumba, 2010, Algonquin Hotel ya ba da sanarwar alaƙar sa da Autograph Collection, Marriott Hotel Collection.

Stanley Turkel ne adam wata An sanya shi a matsayin 2014 da 2015 na Tarihi na shekara ta Tarihi na Tarihi na Tarihi, shirin aikin hukuma na National Trust for Tarihin Adana Tarihi. Turkel shine mashahurin mashawarcin otal din da aka fi yadawa a Amurka. Yana aiki da aikin tuntuɓar otal ɗin da yake aiki a matsayin ƙwararren mashaidi a cikin al'amuran da suka shafi otal, yana ba da kula da kadara da shawarwarin ikon mallakar otal. An tabbatar dashi a matsayin Babban Mai Ba da Otal din Otal daga Cibiyar Ilimi ta Hotelasar Amurkan Hotel da Lodging Association. [email kariya] 917-628-8549

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