WHO? 1925 Edison fox trot from "Sunny" -- Ernie Golden & Hotel McAlpin -- gmmix скачать в хорошем качестве

WHO? 1925 Edison fox trot from "Sunny" -- Ernie Golden & Hotel McAlpin -- gmmix

"Who?" from the Broadway show "Sunny" by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Jerome Kern....played by Ernie Golden and his Hotel McAlpin Orchestra....on white label Edison Diamond Disc #51672. The Hotel McAlpin was constructed in 1912 on Herald Square, at the corner of Broadway and 34th street in Manhattan, New York City by General Edwin A. McAlpin, son of David Hunter McAlpin. When opened it was the largest hotel in the world. The hotel was designed by the noted architect Frank Mills Andrews (1867--1948). Andrews also was president of the Greeley Square Hotel Company which first operated the hotel. Construction of the Hotel McAlpin neared completion by the end of 1912 so that the hotel had an open house on 29 December. The largest hotel in the world at the time, The New York Times commented that it was so tall at 25 stories that it "seems isolated from other buildings." Boasting a staff of 1,500, the hotel could accommodate 2,500 guests. It was built at a cost of $13.5 million (nearly 300 million in 1997 dollars). The top floor had a Turkish bath and there were two gender-specific floors; women checking into the hotel could reserve a room on the women's only floor and bypass the lobby and check in directly at their own floor. One floor, dubbed the "sleepy 16th" was designed for night workers so that it was kept quiet during the day. The McAlpin hosted what may be the first broadcast from a New York hotel in 1920, by singer LUISA TETRAZZINI from her room in the hotel. The Army Signal Corps arranged the broadcast, and later, in 1922, the McAlpin became one of the first hotels to link ship-to-shore radios into their phone system. The hotel would later be the first home of, and give the call letters to, radio station WMCA in 1925.