Willcox Hotel Story of a Once Grand Hostelry
The Willcox Hotel once hosted leaders of society and politics including Churchill and Elizabeth Arden. It began as the Willcox family home, built after the 1898 Highland Park Hotel fire spurred hosting winter guests in Aiken known as The Queen of Winter Resorts. The grand inn sat on Colleton Street, now a shell of its former self with seasons of operation shifting over time.
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Willcox Hotel
Willcox
Peel
Maxwell
Winston Churchill
John Barrymore
Charles E. Bohlen
John Forrestal
Elizabeth Arden
Historic Aiken Inn Holds Last Additions and Later Fates
Historic Aiken details the Willcox Hotel 1928 columned entrance grand entry with native stone fireplaces and wooden peg floors. It notes Albert S Bert Willcox ran the business, a 1954 Brynes banquet for 800 guests, Idella Bodie’s The Secret of Telfair Inn, a 1957 auction selling to Joseph M Eways, and later proposed new uses with the building remaining empty.
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Aiken
Willcox
Albert S
Bert) Willcox
Reading
Eways
Not Dressed For Success
A narrator reflects on not fitting the image of corporate power. They reveal attempts to disguise identity with wigs and fashion while noting the absurdities of attache cases and the contrast with neatly ordered colleagues. A plane incident ends with a lost attache case and humorous regret.
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E. F. Hutton
Washington
Let Love Be The Weapon In Battle Against Smoking
Dear Abby counsels a wife of a heavy smoker with emphysema on how to handle discovery of hidden cigarettes. She urges compassion and concrete quitting options including Smokenders and support rather than guilt.
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Abby
California
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Colleton
Frederick Willcox
Chesterfield
Newberry Streets
By Sarah Caskey
Colleton Avenue
Newberry
Whiskey Roads
Newberry Street
Ginny Southworth
Erma
Bette Midler
Abigail van Buren
Warson Woods, MO
Woods
Anonymous
Lasky Drive
Beverly Hills
Calif
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