Hotel Bristol
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The Hotel Bristol is the name of more than 200SRO (single room occupancy) Bristol in San Francisco. They are not a chain, except in Brazil, where Bristol Hoteis & Resorts[2] has around a dozen hotels throughout the country with the Bristol name.
Origins
The first known Hotel Bristol was in Place Vendôme in Paris. It opened in 1816 and became a favourite of the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, who had a suite there. When it closed in 1916, its name was fought over, and finally won by Hippolyte Jammet,[3] who opened Hôtel Le Bristol Paris in nearby Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, today one of the city's five-star palace hotels.
Two possible origins of the name are the association with the English port-city of
Napoleonic wars (1803–15), which interrupted the Grand Tour
. The Bristol in Paris was one of many opened in the ensuing peace, hoping to re-establish the Continental tourist trade.
The fact that many hotels, such as the Bernini Bristol in Rome, use the coat of arms of the City of Bristol in their logos leads to speculation [5] that they are named after the city and not the Earl-Bishop. But there is no evidence that the Bristol family ever granted use of their arms to any hotel, while the city's coat of arms can freely be adopted to give an aristocratic image.
Modern distribution
Bristol Hotel, Odessa (1899) has reclaimed its name after changing it to the Krasnaya Hotel during the Soviet era. One of the oldest still functioning is the Bernini Bristol in Rome, which opened in 1874. Bristol hotels also have a presence in the Middle East in Beirut since 1951 with Le Bristol Hotel Beirut. Modern hotels to use the name include those in Frankfurt, San Diego and Gurgaon, India. The city of Bristol in England did not have a Bristol hotel until 2007 when Jurys Hotel Bristol changed its name simply to The Bristol.[6]
Associations
- S.C.U.M. Manifesto and attempted assassin of Andy Warhol, died in room 202 of the Hotel Bristol, 56 Mason Street, San Francisco.[7] Richard Ramirez (a.k.a. Night Stalker) stayed in the same hotel, room 315, during his killing spree in 1985. The comedy film What's Up, Doc? (1972), starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, features the Hilton Hotel as the "Hotel Bristol, San Francisco". The famous Black Cat Bar was originally in the basement of this building, then named the Athens Hotel, from 1906 to 1921. The Black Cat was later located in North Beachat 710 Montgomery Street in San Francisco.
- The Hotel Bristol, Oslo, was where, in November 1939, Hans Ferdinand Mayer "a German scientist, who is on your side" wrote the Oslo Report, a major leak of technical information passed to the British.
- Hotel Bristol, Warsaw opened in 1901 on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Thoroughly refurbished in its original style in the 1990s it was reopened by Margaret Thatcher, an event that forms the final chapter of her memoirs.[8]
- Hotel Bristol (Berlin) opened in 1891 and was destroyed in an air raid in 1943. It held the first international IAA (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung) motor show, in 1897, and was involved in the Krupp scandal, detailed in William Manchester's book on the arms manufacturer.
- The five-star luxury hotel in Theresienstadt concentration camp where he died.[9]
- Leon Trotsky was accused of meeting with others to plot against Stalin in the Hotel Bristol (Copenhagen). An alibi was established in 1937 when the Dewey Commission showed that the hotel had burned down in 1917.
- The Le Bristol Hotel (Beirut), is one of the most exclusive hotels in Beirut where the Lebanese Independence from the occupying Syrian military force was prepared in 2005.[10]
Notable hotels called Bristol Hotel or Hotel Bristol
- Bristol Hotel, Mar del Plata, Argentina
- Hotel Bristol, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Hotel Bristol (Copenhagen), Denmark
- Hôtel Le Bristol Paris, France
- Hotel Bristol (Berlin), Germany
- Bristol Hotel, Gibraltar
- Le Bristol Hotel Beirut, Lebanon
- Hotel Bristol (Oslo), Norway
- Hotel Bristol, Warsaw, Poland
- Hotel Bristol, Belgrade, Serbia
- Bristol Hotel, Odesa, Ukraine
References
- ^ "Hotel Bristol Project". Bristolbook.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Bristol Hotéis & Resorts | Faça sua reserva online". Bristolhoteis.com.br. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ Le Bristol: A 'Palace' Hotel in its Century by Pierre Jammet, Editions Hoêbecke. Paris, 1998
- ^ Childe-Pemberton, William Shakespeare (1924). The Earl Bishop: the life of Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, Earl of Bristol. London: Hurst & Blackett.
- ^ "Bristol - who or what's behind the popular hotel name". Famous Hotels. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "The Bristol Hotel - Boutique Hotel in Bristol City Centre". The Doyle Collection. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ "Solanas Lost and Found". Village Voice. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
- ^ Thatcher, M. The Downing Street Years, Harpercollins, 1993
- ^ Erlanger, Steven (7 March 2002). "Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews". NYTimes.com. Vienna (Austria); Austria. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ^ Rabil, Robert (18 February 2005). "Syria and the Polarization of Lebanese Politics". www.washingtoninstitute.org.
- ^ Daliborka Mučibabić (19 January 2012), "Vek istorije "Bristola"", Politika (in Serbian)
- ^ "Hotel "Bristol"". Cultural properties in Belgrade.
External links
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- Hotel Bristol Vienna, by Andreas Augustin, ISBN 978-3-900692-11-7, published 2008
- The Earl of Bristol Didn't Sleep Here, But the Hotel Might Be Named After Him, Wall Street Journal, Sept 27, 2008.
- All the Bristol Hotels in the World by Roger Williams (Bristol Book Publishing, 2017)
- Hotel Bristol Stories by Roger Williams (Bristol Book Publishing, 2017)
- UK: The Bristol fashion, Telegraph (Travel), 15 April 2000.
- The Mitred Earl: An Eighteenth-Century Eccentric by Brian Fothergill (Faber & Faber 1974)
- The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester, details corruption in the Berlin Bristol (Little, Brown, 1968)
- The Earl Bishop, the life of Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, Earl of Bristol by William Shakespeare Childe-Pemberton, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1924
- Vienna's tourist trail of plunder, Guardian (World News), 21 May 2002.
- Bristol Hotel in Campbell California