Those are great links, I really enjoyed them! The Stanford magazine article was a real pleasure, it brought back memories of the excitement of having a shop.
That is not the same Goldwater poster I had, btw. I have a feeling not many of those were made. Mine was a simple 2X3 campaign poster. It was elegant in its own way though, a black and white photo with gold around it. Wonder why I never noticed it, or recognized it for what it was. I've been there 2 maybe 3 times - always in the summer. The brain boils over in there after awhile.
If the Spur Hotel goes under, there is always this place.
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I stopped there once on the way to Taos and still think about that place from to time. I checked in not knowing anything about it or its history, I just thought it looked charming. Well I have to tell you I've never believed in ghosts, but during my stay there I thought I encountered one. I was standing in the lobby looking at some pictures on the wall when suddenly a strong scent of lilac water (or what I imagine lilac water must smell like) seemed to surround me. Then it was gone as suddenly as it appeared. When I mentioned it to the clerk, she freaked (or put on a good show of freaking) and began gushing how lucky I was to have encountered the ghost of Mary, wife of the former proprietor who was shot in bed when caught cheating on her husband. For a brief time she had me convinced, but then I began thinking, wait a minute, there must be a confederate up there somewhere on the 2nd floor squirting lilac water through a pinhole in the floor or something. Or maybe the clerk has a little foot pedal that activates a hidden atomizer in the wall. I looked and looked and found nothing.
It's still a mystery how they pulled that off. If someone was injecting lilac mist near where I was, it would have lingered and slowly dissipated. But it came and went very fast, like what might happen if someone walked past you wearing that stuff. Ghosts or no ghosts, it's a fun place to spend the night, quite a colorful history to the place. |
