The Panther Room of The College Inn, Hotel Sherman Chicago 1943

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The Panther Room of The College Inn, Hotel Sherman Chicago 1943In the 1920s, entertainment at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago consisted of genteel string orchestras playing waltzes for guests. American band leader and saxophonist Isham Jones shook up this tradition by playing jazz oriented music that originated in African American communities and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. However, the hotel was not racially integrated. Jones fronted an all white jazz orchestra, and black musicians were barred from

Donald Wexler and Richard Harrison

was once told by a guest that New York City was like a circus – so he arranged to have a circus – complete with elephants – perform in the grand ballroom

We are assuming aspiring actors from out of town holed up here

The Pick Corporation bought the property in 1950 and oversaw a major restoration of the public rooms and bedrooms that hosted Presidents and Hollywood stars and lasted until the 1960s

a sunset view

It featured a ‘bevy of entertainers

This charming kitchen orchestra is from an Italian menu cover dated 1955

These initiatives were requested by the United States Food Administration

The Canary Cottage on Main Street was literally the coolest place in town because it was the first establishment to install air conditioning

with freshly baked biscuits served to early-bird customers

ate chop suey

legend has it that the foremen from John Brown shipyards paid their bar bills at Rogano with 'borrowed' lengths of the expensive burr walnut and bird's eye maple paneling specified for the liner that had somehow escaped the yard

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