After yesterday’s
sobering news, we could use an escape. Fitting the bill: Seattle’s historic Camlin Hotel, built 1926.
Fifty-two cabana units were added in 1960 in preparation for the World’s Fair. The hotel is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Click to escape and see this full resolution vintage ad from 1962.
Some nice period 60′s furniture shown here.
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| The Camlin Hotel & Cabanas. Country Club Living in downtown Seattle! From “Beautiful Seattle Offers A Plus Convention,” Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 1962. |
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| The Camlin Hotel & Cabanas. Living Rooms — The Camlin Hotel and Cabanas afford a wide variety of accommodations, from a single Cabana to multiple room suites in the Tower. All accommodations have direct-dialing telephone and free televisions. From “Beautiful Seattle Offers A Plus Convention,” Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 1962. |
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| The Camlin Hotel & Cabanas. Group Rooms — The Camlin Hotel and Cabanas offers a variety of rooms to accommodate group gatherings. The rooms can be arranged to handle meetings or conferences… or if desirable, cocktail parties, Breakfasts, Luncheons or Dinners. From “Beautiful Seattle Offers A Plus Convention,” Seattle Chamber of Commerce, 1962. |
I miss the Cloud Room. It was a great place to take out of town guests. I have a friend who once went to the Cloud Room on a weekday night and the place was nearly empty except for her. And who was sitting at the piano, playing soft and sad tunes? Tom Waits. He was in town on tour a day early and was killing time at the bar, just as she was. So jealous!
I want a cabana unit please.
love the old promotional materials. I have an odd Camlin memory but one I will never lose … I spent a lot of time in Virginia Mason Hospital before and after our son’s birth 13 years ago (they don’t even do births there any more), and almost all the rooms I was in looked out at the Camlin and its bright green sign. Spent a LOT of time looking at that sign …
I believe the Cabana rooms are due to be demolished once they get going on building the Ava tower. That was another one of the planned Cono/Hotel buildings for that little block.
In the mid-’70s, when I was going to the Ron Bailie School Of Broadcasting(170 Denny Way, right across from the Blue Line), amongst the ad copy we were given to use to prepare us for being “professional announcers” was ads for “Fred & Brownie” at the Cloud Room at the Camlin Hotel. I never went there until 1981, but from then on, that was my pre- and post-concert stop whenever we caught a show at the Paramount
Once the new W isconsin logo was launched most all of us here was in the state of shock.Ugh. Hopefully it can d isappear as speedily because it arrived.
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THANK YOU for posting the brochure…and the postcard on another post. Tomorrow I am hosting a cocktail party in one of the two-bedroom penthouse units (there are two, I believe) in the renovated Camlin…my history is that I was a regular patron of the Cloud Room long before I was a WorldMark (Trendwest) owner — the joy of being able to continue to experience this wonderful building… I think it’s on Tuesday that they offer tours for guests, and there is also a small museum in the basement with the best of what they found in all the old rooms… and they repurposed all the wrought iron grills that were between the kitchens and dining areas into the base for glass coffee tables — and all the original door knobs for the rooms are outside each room in a shadow box — they did the old girl proud.
The old private dining room on the Cloud Room floor (to the right as you get off the elevator) is now a guest lounge for everyone to use — the only thing I miss is the old “cloud” button on the elevator.
Can’t wait to share the postcard and brochure with my buddies.
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