Father Pitt

Tag: Advertisements

  • No Tap-Dancing in Rooms After 9 p.m.

    Hotel Roosevelt

    The Hotel Roosevelt, as it appeared in a 1928 advertisement in the National Vaudeville Artists Year Book. The advertisement was designed to appeal to performers on the vaudeville circuit (which was just about to come crashing down and would be nearly extinct in five years), and it was certainly a convenient location, within a block’s walk of at least five theaters. The Roosevelt still stands today, converted to apartments, and it is still surrounded by theaters.

    The ad carries the name of L. Fred Klooz, President and Managing Director, and it includes a bit of doggerel so awful that we can only presume it was written by Mr. Klooz himself.

    Ad for Hotel Roosevelt

  • Lord & Burnham, Horticultural Architects and Builders

    Lord & Burnham advertisement from 1896
    From the American Architect and Building News, July 25, 1896.

    Lord & Burnham designed Phipps Conservatory in 1892, which was probably their biggest commission ever; and in this 1896 advertisement for their services, we see them showing a model conservatory that is very much like one of the wings of Phipps.

    Phipps Conservatory from a similar angle
    Southeast wing of Phipps Conservatory, with John Massey Rhind’s Robert Burns.

  • Hotel Schenley Advertisement from 1929

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 29, 1929, page 10. Note the exaggerated height; compare it to the proportions in old Pa Pitt’s pictures.