The Brothels Are Closed but the Whisky Still Flows in the Deadwood of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane

By Rich Grant “Wild Bill” Hickok, of Dakota’s most boisterous boomtown, was such a romantic figure that it is hard to believe he really existed. Of course, through dime novels, movies, HBO, television shows and merchandising for 155 years, his image has become a caricature of the real thing. Look back at what contemporaries wrote…

Hotels with a Past

By Peter Greenberg The hospitality industry is hurting because of the coronavirus, but despite lower occupancy rates a number of new hotels are on the verge of opening. Buit what attracts me isn’t the newest construction but hotel properties with a lot of history. There are historic hotels throughout the world, but the ones below…

The Artistry of Airport Design

By Justin Noah and David DeVoss No structures better captured the spirit of America than airports. When it opened in 1960, Idlewild’s Pan Am Worldport embodied the Space Age with a circular roof that projected outward like a hovering flying saucer. TWA asked Finnish American architect Ero Saarinen to “capture the spirit of flight” and…