Description
Black and white 7 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ ad for the variety of Hotels that the Hilton company had around the United States at that time. The ad has a picture that shows a large Bellman waiting to help and he is surrounded by various other Bellman doing some of the tasks they do every day for the paying public. Each Bellman has the name and location of a Hilton Hotel listed next to him. There is The Stevens in Chicago, The Roosevelt in New York, The Town House in Los Angeles, the Dayton Biltmore in Dayton Ohio, the Hilton Hotels in El Paso and Lubbock Texas, the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque New Mexico, the Palacio Hilton in Chihuahua Mexico, the Palm Beach Biltmore in Palm Beach, the Bermuciana Castle Harbour in St. George Bermuda, the Neil House in Columbus Ohio, the Palmer House in Chicago, The Mayflower in Washington D.C. and The Plaza in New York. The ad claims that these Bellmen “… answer over 25,000 calls every day”.
Source: April 5, 1948 Time magazine.
