Mbiri Yakale: Hotelo ya Shepheard ku Cairo yodziwika bwino, alendo odziwika, komanso asitikali

Mbiri ya Shepheard's Hotel idayamba zaka 178 pomwe idamangidwa ndi Mngelezi Samuel Shepheard ku Cairo. Poyamba idatchedwa "Hotel des Anglais" (English Hotel). A Shepheard anali ndi hoteloyo limodzi ndi Mr. Hill yemwe anali mphunzitsi wamkulu wa Mohammed Ali Pasha. Mu 1845, Hill anasiya chidwi ndi hotelo yomwe Shepheard anagulitsa mu 1861. Shepheard's Hotel inali yotchuka chifukwa cha chuma chake, alendo ake otchuka komanso ngati bwalo la boma la asilikali. Mawindo ake opaka magalasi, makapeti aku Persia, minda yokongola, masitepe ndi zipilala zazikulu za granite zinali zodziwika ku Middle East ndi Europe. Bar yake yaku America idabwerako osati ndi aku America okha komanso ndi akuluakulu aku France ndi Britain. Panali magule ausiku amuna ovala yunifolomu ndi akazi ovala mikanjo yamadzulo. Richard Burton, bwenzi lapamtima la Shepheard, adasiya kufotokozera mwatsatanetsatane za khalidwe lake lowolowa manja ndi ntchito yabwino, kumufotokozera kuti ndi "munthu wodabwitsa m'zinthu zambiri, komanso m'zinthu zonse "John Bull". Bwalo la Abusa linkadziwika kuti "bala lalitali" chifukwa nthawi zonse limakhala lodzaza.

Kuyambira 1937, Joe Scialom adatsogolera Long Bar ku Shepheard's. Anagwira ntchito mu jekete yoyera ndi bowtie wakuda, amalankhula zinenero zisanu ndi zitatu, ndipo ankakhala ngati banki, mlangizi, woyimbira masewero ndi abambo ovomereza makasitomala ake. Pa nthawi ya ulamuliro wake, Long Bar ankadziwika kuti St. Joe's Parish. Iye anapanga Suffering Bastard, kusakaniza kwamphamvu komwe kumapitirizabe kuphatikizidwa m'mabuku onse abwino ogulitsa. Anatumikira nthawi yonse ya nkhondo yachiwiri ya padziko lonse ndipo nkhani zomwe akanatha kunena zikanapangitsa kuti buku lake likhale lofunika kuwerenga. Joe anali kuyang'anira bala Loweruka mu 1952 pomwe hoteloyo idawotchedwa. Anachoka ku Egypt mu 1956 ndipo anapitiriza kugwira ntchito yogulitsa mowa ku United States. Ntchito yake yomaliza inali pa Windows on the World ku World Trade Center ku New York asanapume pantchito ku Florida.

Chakumapeto kwa zaka za m'ma 19, Cairo idakhala likulu la zamalonda zapadziko lonse lapansi, alendo aku Europe komanso apaulendo. The Shepheards Hotel idapereka mawonekedwe apamwamba a Ibraham Pasha Street pansipa. Inali likulu la zochitika zambiri zamagulu ndi ndale kuphatikizapo Kutsegula Kwakukulu kwa Suez Canal mu 1869 pamene anthu ambiri otchuka padziko lonse adaitanidwa kuti apite nawo mwambowu.

Pa mahotela onse otchuka kwambiri padziko lonse, a Raffles ku Singapore, Peninsula ku Hong Kong ndi Vier Jahreszeiten ku Hamburg ndi omwe angafanane ndi kukongola ndi Abusa a nthawiyi.

Hoteloyi inali ndi alendo ambiri odziwika bwino kuphatikiza Aga Khan, Maharajah waku Jodhpur, Winston Churchill, wofufuza malo Henry Morton Stanley, Field Marshall Herbert Kichener, TE Laurence, Theodore Roosevelt, Kalonga waku Wales ndi ena ambiri. Zinawonetsedwa mu filimu ya ku Britain ya 1934 yotchedwa The Camels are Coming. Kuhoteloyi ndi kumene kunali ziwonetsero zingapo mu filimu ya 1996 yotchedwa The English Patient komanso The Grand Hotel des Bains ku Venice Lido, Italy. Hoteloyi idagwiritsidwa ntchito ngati poyambira ntchito mu mndandanda wa The Race Colonization wolembedwa ndi Harry Turtledove, ngati malo ku Agatha Christie's Crooked House, ndipo amatchulidwa munkhani yaifupi ya Anthony Trollope, Mkazi Wosatetezedwa ku Pyramids (1861). Idawonetsedwanso pafupipafupi m'mabuku a Elizabeth Peters 'Amelia Peabody.

Pa Januware 26, 1952 hoteloyo idawonongedwa kwathunthu panthawi ya Moto wa Cairo komanso ziwawa zotsutsana ndi Britain zomwe zidatsogolera ku Revolution ya Egypt ya 1952.

Hotelo yamakono ya Shepheards inamangidwa mu 1957 ndi Egypt Hotels Ltd. pafupifupi theka la kilomita kuchokera pomwe panali hotelo yoyambirira. Ndi ya Egypt General Company for Tourism and Hotels ndipo imayendetsedwa ndi Rocco Forte Company.

Kuwulura: Pamene Loews Hotels idagula Drake Hotel ku New York mu 1965, ndinalembedwa ntchito ngati General Manager. Panthawiyo, discotheque yotchuka kwambiri komanso yopambana ku Manhattan inali Shepheard's ku Drake yomwe inkatsegulidwa masiku asanu ndi awiri pa sabata kwa cocktails, chakudya chamadzulo ndi chakudya chamadzulo ndi kuvina kosalekeza kuyambira 7:30 PM mpaka 3AM. Chakudya chamasana chimaperekedwa Lolemba mpaka Lachisanu ndi brunch yapadera Lamlungu kuyambira masana mpaka 4PM. Pachakudya chamasana ku Shepheards panali ziwonetsero zamafashoni ndipo, kwa zaka zingapo, masana, pulogalamu yolankhulirana pa WNBC yokhala ndi Metropolitan Opera's Mimi Benzell monga wolandila alendo ndi alendo otchuka. Nthawi zambiri ndinkadzaza alendo omwe amalephera kubwera.

Tinasindikiza ndi kugaŵira khadi lamutu wakuti, “Momwe Mungachitire Mavinidwe Atsopano A Discotheque ku Shepheard’s ku Drake Hotel ku New York” ndi malangizo a sitepe ndi sitepe a kuvina Jerk, Watusi, Frug ndi Monkey. Phwando la Killer Joe Piro linali lokhazikika ku Shepheard's. Discotheque inali yopambana kwambiri kotero kuti ogula anaima pamzere pa 56thStreet ndi kuzungulira ngodya ya Park Avenue kudikirira (ngakhale usiku wozizira kwambiri) kuti avomerezedwe kumene adalipira chivundikiro chachikulu kuti avine nyimbo za disco.

Wolembayo, Stanley Turkel, ndi wovomerezeka komanso wothandizira pamsika wama hotelo. Amagwiritsa ntchito hotelo yake, kuchereza alendo komanso kuwunikira komwe kumagwiritsa ntchito kasamalidwe ka chuma, kuwunikiridwa kwa magwiridwe antchito ndi magwiridwe antchito amgwirizano wama franchising ndi ntchito zothandizira milandu. Makasitomala ndi eni hotelo, osunga ndalama, ndi mabungwe obwereketsa.

“Akatswiri Opanga Mapulani a Hotelo Yaikulu ku America”

Buku lake lachisanu ndi chitatu la mbiri ya hotelo lili ndi amisiri khumi ndi awiri omwe adapanga mahotela 94 kuyambira 1878 mpaka 1948: Warren & Wetmore, Schultze & Weaver, Julia Morgan, Emery Roth, McKim, Mead & White, Henry J. Hardenbergh, Carrere & Hastings, Mulliken & Moeller, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, Trowbridge & Livingston, George B. Post ndi Ana.

Mabuku Ena Osindikizidwa:

• Amalonda Akuluakulu ku America: Apainiya a Makampani Ogulitsa (2009)
  • Kumangidwa Pomaliza: Mahotela Akale Zaka 100+ ku New York (2011)
  • Kumangidwira Pomaliza: Mahotela Azaka 100+ Kum'mawa kwa Mississippi (2013)
  • Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt ndi Oscar waku Waldorf (2014)
  • Great American Hoteliers Voliyumu 2: Apainiya Ogulitsa Makampani (2016)
  • Kumangidwira Pomaliza: Mahotela Azaka 100+ Kumadzulo kwa Mississippi (2017)
• Hotel Mavens Volume 2: Henry Morrison Flagler, Henry Bradley Plant, Carl Graham Fisher (2018)

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