Update
I have added beautiful old postcards for some of the hotels in Part Three: Uptown Tenderloin. A few examples are shown below:
Up from the Deep (The Hotel Project)
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What a great addition to your book. I love looking at how grand some of these hotels were back in the day.
what a totally great idea… i love it,, and that might bring the touristas by way of the postcards too.. great idea….
love the herald hotel lobby
It’s one of my favorites, too. I have some gorgeous lobby shots of a couple of Tenderloin hotels that no longer exist. I may photograph the buildings on those sites just so I can have an excuse for including the postcards to show what used to be there.