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While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.
While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.

While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.

Date3/19/1976
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0125663F
      The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
      The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
      Griffin, Doug
      10/21/1974
      Golden fingers. E. Dee Gold's been playing piano and singing in the Airport Hilton Hotel's Candelelight Room for eight years. Yesterday, she celebrate(...)
      Golden fingers. E. Dee Gold's been playing piano and singing in the Airport Hilton Hotel's Candelelight Room for eight years. Yesterday, she celebrate(...)
      Gold, Edie
      3/27/1979
      The man who ringed the world with hotels, 82-year-old Conrad Hilton, arrived in Toronto yesterday for a quick, one-day trip that could result in a $45(...)
      The man who ringed the world with hotels, 82-year-old Conrad Hilton, arrived in Toronto yesterday for a quick, one-day trip that could result in a $45(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      4/8/1968
      The Chelsea Inn: Bill Pattison (left) and his Delta Hotels group was hired to turn a bankrupt development into an economy hotel
      The Chelsea Inn: Bill Pattison (left) and his Delta Hotels group was hired to turn a bankrupt development into an economy hotel
      Brennan, Pat
      10/29/1985
      Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Hotels and Motels - Inn on the Park
      Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Hotels and Motels - Inn on the Park
      Spremo, Boris
      n.d.
      Renovator: Juergen Bartels, president of the Ramada Hotel Group, told franchise hotel operators there was no room at his Inn if they didn't renovate. As a result, $350 million (U.S.) has been spent on refurbishing rooms at Ramada Inns across North America, he says.
      Renovator: Juergen Bartels, president of the Ramada Hotel Group, told franchise hotel operators there was no room at his Inn if they didn't renovate. As a result, $350 million (U.S.) has been spent on refurbishing rooms at Ramada Inns across North America, he says.
      Cooper, David
      10/4/1982
      A clean-up view from the top. The Royal York Hotel is getting a facelift as part of the hotel's $13 million renovation program which will be completed(...)
      A clean-up view from the top. The Royal York Hotel is getting a facelift as part of the hotel's $13 million renovation program which will be completed(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      4/24/1973
      Sheila and Arthur Hailey in Scarboro home: He visited 33 hotels for best-selling ''Hotel''?it's airports next
      Sheila and Arthur Hailey in Scarboro home: He visited 33 hotels for best-selling ''Hotel''?it's airports next
      Hailey, Arthur
      4/2/1965
      Pay too high, Dolly Parton was paid $350,000 a week by the Riviera in Las Vegas last year but few hotels can afford that kind of money these days
      Pay too high, Dolly Parton was paid $350,000 a week by the Riviera in Las Vegas last year but few hotels can afford that kind of money these days
      Darrell, Dick
      8/25/1978
      Live entertainment is sweeping the suburbs - from band concerts in the park to the big-name entertainers making up the shower of stars as the Beverly Hills Motor Hotel's Hook and Ladder Club
      Live entertainment is sweeping the suburbs - from band concerts in the park to the big-name entertainers making up the shower of stars as the Beverly Hills Motor Hotel's Hook and Ladder Club
      Laine, Frankie, 1913-2007
      2/22/1974
      Metro resident only 2 1/2 years, Polish-born Margaret Kanabus, 22, manages an apartment-hotel on Eglinton Ave
      Metro resident only 2 1/2 years, Polish-born Margaret Kanabus, 22, manages an apartment-hotel on Eglinton Ave
      Darrell, Dick
      4/29/1975
      Cover has text in varied font type. Decorative illustration of leaves entwined below text on le…
      Muskoka through a camera: an album of the Muskoka Lakes, devoted to a description of the unrivalled beauties of this region, hotel accommodation, railway and steamboat service, fishing, hunting, etc., containing list of hotels, boarding houses, map of the lakes and views of hotels and scenery
      Smily, Frederick
      1900