Pitch perfect: hotels

As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market hotels and restaurants.

Aglow with friendliness (Hotel Fort Shelby), Detroit.
All that is best (Biltmore Hotel).
America’s smartest resort hotel (Ritz-Carlton, Atlantic City, N.J.).
An eating place of distinction (Cifaldi’s Villa Nova), Indianapolis.
At the crossroads of the world (Hotel Astor), New York.

Balanced meals for balanced budgets (Ken’s Diner, Brooklyn).
Be our guest (Restaurant), The Patio, San Rafael, Calif.).
Big hotel that remembers the little things, The (New Yorker), New York.
Boston’s most famous hotel (Parker House).

Champion resort, A (Tony Canzoneri’s Country Club), Marlboro, N.Y.
Coast to coast, we give the most (Milner Hotels).
Convenient to everywhere (Rittenhouse Hotel), Philadelphia.
Cooked the way you like it (Quaint Inn), Indianapolis.

Desert resort by the sea, The (Playa de Cortes), Guaymas, Mexico.
Downtown St. Louis at your doorstep (Hotels Mayfair and Lennox).
Dream your dreams at the wishing well (restaurant), The Patio, San Rafael.
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