17 Places to Sit

A new postcard find that I find myself staring at far too much. Eye, if you will, the Murrieta Hot Springs Hotel, circa...1970?



I went searching for the Murrieta, to see if it still exists. No luck so far, but I've got to know three things:

1) Does it still have two couches and four squishy chairs, making for a total of ten seats, angled around a small table? A very impressive conversation nook. Nearby are seven more seats huddled together. Everyone share. NOW! It's the '70s.
2) The Victorian globe lamps. Again, like the chairs and couch, there are... a lot. Maybe over 30 in this one snapshot.
3) Dried flowers, branches, buds, everywhere. A tiny Toltec idol on an end table. A rock wall. Red carpet. Red wallpaper. Red ceiling. White drapes.

1970s hotel style, you had it GOING ON.

"The Shining" Carpet

I like "The Shining" and I like hotel carpet. In fact, these are two topics I spend rather too much time dwelling upon.

Is this pattern seared upon your mind? As a little girl who played in empty hotel hallways, it is upon mine.

Crunchy Carpet

What I do not care for in a hotel room.

If it is crunchy shag, consider me fascinated/creeped/be-socked.

Save the Hotel Carpets!

When my father, a longtime hotel man, strides down a hallway -- and with his fine suits and tall stature, my father truly strides -- he keeps to the edges, nearly clinging to the wall. Is this a secret General Manager walk? Did the daily dramas of hotel life finally make him lose his mind?

Nope. The man refuses to travel down the middle of a hallway as he does not want to further wear down the center strip of carpet where everyone else walks. Thousands of guests, thousands of feet, bye-bye lustrous carpet. And he holds that even one pair of feet can make a difference. Mad? Genius? Yes.













Couldn't every hotel benefit by asking guests to walk to the side? I always do wherever I stay. Should I ask for a Carpet-Saver's Discount?