Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:46:42 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: For those WSFAns of a certain vintage
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> & then there was the City Line Marriott in Philly ... another wandering =
> property.

You rang? *That*, I remember: it was the shape of a capital "H"... but
the crossbar was three stories, while the uprights were 5. So, to go
from a party in 5092 to one in 5196, you went down half a block, down
two floors, across half a block, up two floors....

mark "my home town is a maze of small, twisty passages,
all alike"
>
> mjw
>
>>>> Judith Newton <jnewton at ashcomp.com> 1/24/2011 5:13 PM >>>
> I don't recollect getting lost in the Sheraton Park nearly as often as
> in the Hunt Valley Inn.
>
> Judy
>
> On 1/24/2011 4:35 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> Tamar Lindsay<dicconf at yahoo.com>  1/24/2011 4:26 PM>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 1/24/11, Michael Walsh<mjw at press.jhu.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Subject: [WSFA] For those WSFAns of a certain vintage
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/4qkmfst
>>> I can't tell where the long ramp is, the one that led from
>>> --what was it, the fifth floor of one tower to the seventh
>>> floor of another?--
>> My recollection is that from the lobby of the Sheraton Park one could =
> walk =
>> down a corridor, come to elevator and discover that one was on the 7th =
> (?) =
>> floor of the Motor Inn - which faced the Shoreham across Calvert St.
>>
>>> I miss the "you are here" maps at
>>> every corner. More hotels should have those, even the ones
>>> that don't have the old "squashed spider" design.
>> I believe many con attendees referred to the Sheraton as the Sheraton =
> =
>> Gormenghast.
>>
>> mjw
>>
>

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