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[Dick Spottswood <dick@xxxxxxxx>]

An enlightening exchange.
Dick

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Tony Russell <tonyrussell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
05/16/2008 11:54 AM

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Dick:

That would be the Winecoff. It was at 176 Peachtree St NW. Opened in 1913,
burned out in 1946 in what was then, and I believe still is, the worst 
hotel
fire in US history; over 100 people died. A young photographer's shot of a
woman jumping from an 11th-floor window (and surviving) won a Pulitzer. 
The
building later became the Peachtree On Peachtree Hotel, then an old 
people's
home, and last year was reopened as the Ellis Hotel. There's a site 
devoted
to the original hotel <www.winecoff.org/hotel/> and quite a few other
interesting hits on google. There was also a 1993 book about the fire.

No site that I've inspected says anything about the Winecoff being used as 
a
recording location. I believe Wade is the first person to put any precise
location to that 8/35 Atlanta visit by Bluebird. (And probably the last
person alive to be able to do so, at least from first-hand knowledge.) The
Bluebird session-sheets, which sometimes ID the precise location (e.g. the
Kimball House in 1940), don't appear to do so here.

TR


On 15/5/08 18:08, "Dick Spottswood" <dick@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Tony,
> 
> Wade Mainer says his 1935 Atlanta Bluebirds were made in a Weinkof (sic)
> hotel---that's my phonetic spelling.   Ever heard of it, or anything 
like
> it? 
> 
> I'm still enjoying Country Music Originals, and wish I'd written an even
> stronger statement for dust jacket.
> 
> Very best wishes,
> Dick