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Grand View Ship Hotel, 63-Mile View, Lincoln Highway, West of Bedford, Pa.

Grand View Ship Hotel, 63-Mile View, Lincoln Highway, West of Bedford, Pa.
"Grand View Point Hotel. See 3 states and 7 counties. Pa., Md., W. Va, 63 mile view from Grand View--Ship Hotel on Lincoln Highway, U.S. 30, 17 miles west of Bedford, Pa., looking into 3 states and 7 counties, 80 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pa. 4A-H1905."

Printed on back: "Distributed by H. Paulson, Grand View-Ship Hotel, Central City, Pa."

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 Smiley Derleth
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Do we know why the hotel was made to look like a ship? I think it's neat -- never seen one like that.
10 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Smiley Derleth club
In The Ship Hotel: A Grand View along the Lincoln Highway (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2010), author Brian Butko quotes a 1930s WPA guide to explain the reason for the ship: "The S.S. Grand View Point Hotel was remodeled in 1931 to give the impression of an ocean liner, because the owner saw a resemblance between early morning mists rising from the valley and billowing ocean waves."

Butko also said, "The Ship Hotel was perhaps the best-known roadside attraction on the coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway." Unfortunately, the deteriorating structure burned down in 2001 as plans were underway for a group to purchase the property and restore the building.

Interestingly enough, another ship-shaped hotel--the Fulton Steamboat Inn--opened in 1990 near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's situated just off of the Lincoln Highway (Route 30) at a site that's about 150 miles east of where the original Ship Hotel once stood.
10 years ago.
 Smiley Derleth
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That's very interesting. Thank you so much.
10 years ago.

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