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fromBusiness Insider
2 days ago

Look inside Miami's 100-year-old Biltmore Hotel, loved by US presidents and linked to mobster lore

The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables opened in 1926 and retained historic grandeur while surviving wartime use, management limbo, and modern revitalization.
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

An iconic Calif. restaurant shuts down amid a lakefront town's slow decline

For almost 50 years, streams of people have stepped through the restaurant's towering glass door into its light-filled threshold, where a series of polished wooden steps unfolds, leading to the dining room with its walls of windows and the brass-topped bar where a waterfall gently spills behind rows of neatly shelved bottles. Outside, a two-tiered deck overlooks the Tahoe City Marina and, beyond the boat slips, a panoramic view of Lake Tahoe.
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