Dear Folks, I finally smoothed out the long story I had written and I pasted all the parts of it into one single document. At the same time I inserted my Automat experience where it belonged in the story and elaborated more on the ellegance of the Roosevelt Hotel. Here's my revised story about the hotel. vee There is so much to tell about the elegant Roosevelt Hotel but I'm certainly not the one who could tell it. When you're only seven years old there's only so much grandeur a little girl can take in and remember. Nonetheless, in Daddy's scrapbook at the very end there is a large brochure of the Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue at 45th Street. The cover is a soft gray with what appears to be a picture of a bronze or copper bas relief of Teddy Roosevelt waiving his hat high above his head on horseback. Inside the brochure are descriptions of all of the luxurious services available to the guests; pictures of all of the different cozy dining areas and magnificent salons and ballrooms, and of course a picture of Guy Lombardo whose orchestra we heard. An interesting advertisement for Knox hats is in the brochure with a picture of Teddy Roosevelt on it. The wording is, "Twenty-two Presidents have worn Knox Hats . . . " What surprised me about that claim is that Teddy Roosevelt was only the twenty-sixth President! However, after Teddy, there had been Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the current Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President. But I guess even at that, twenty-six out of thirty-two presidents is quite impressive.