The Beverly Hills Hotel
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The Beverly Hills Hotel, also called the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. One of the world's best-known hotels, it is closely associated with Hollywood film stars, rock stars, and celebrities. The hotel has 210 guest rooms and suites and 23 bungalows and the exterior bears the hotel's signature pink and green colors.
The entrance to the hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel under construction in 1912
Overlooking the back of the hotel and Beverly Hills in 1921
The hotel in 1925
The Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company, known today as HMSHost, was a business founded by the Van Noy Brothers of Kansas City, Missouri, which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century to provide services to travelers aboard passenger trains. At a time when most passenger trains carried neither dining cars nor lounge cars, private businessmen such as the Van Noys recognized a profit opportunity by operating eating houses at railroad junction points and selling snacks and novelties aboard the trains.
Meal ticket issued to employee of Missouri Pacific Railway, authorizing purchase of meals at special discounted "railroad rate" of thirty five cents, at all Van Noy dining rooms located along the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railways.
Van Noy hotel constructed in Newport, Arkansas in 1907. Note how hotel follows architectural style of adjacent depot which had been constructed five years earlier. Signs on corner of building say "Van Noy Dining Room", while sign over door says "Van Noy Lunch Room."