Today's edition of Matchbook Monday moves out of Jackson. Feel free to add your stories or any information about them in
the comments section as you enjoy these blasts from the past. Readers
can email copies of any old matchbooks to kingfish1935@gmail.com.
First stop is Natchez.
A long-time favorite in Natchez is the Eola Hotel.
Let's go South to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The Peabody is a favorite of well-heeled Mississippi travelers.
6 comments:
Every time I see the matchbook Monday post just makes me feel older. This week I can say I have stayed and eaten at all of them. The Eola was great when it first opened, rooms were a little small, but a good place to stay to see Natchez. Post House was just OK.
The Peabody was and is a wonderful old hotel, but the ducks are the main attraction.
The Buena Vista was a time from my early teens, when I took road trips with my parents to the Coast. My dad used to gamble in the back room there. And I still remember the red snapper from Baraicev's. Great matchbook Monday!
I remember Pete Fountain had ownership in the Buena Vista and they used to have his name on the building.
I stayed at the Peabody in Little Rock, Ark. Great place. Saw the ducks come down the elevator & walk around the lobby.
Nice.
I still have a recording of myself singing tone-deaf on the Peabody Roof on my sixth birthday (1948). They had a lady going around to the tables with a recorder and for a fee they would cut a little 78 rpm platter for you.
By the way, the chef there could be called a "Victualer on the Roof."
My grandfather owned the Buena Vista long ago!! Fun times I remember flying the old Southern airlines at 4 years old alone to goi remember flying down on Southern airline to visit him.
I've at least been to, if not necessarily eaten/stayed at, all of these, but Baricev's is the one I'm not nostalgic about. Camille demolished it, but they rebuilt; only to be taken in by a casino.
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