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8/8/08
There has been many doings about the date 8/8/08. Weddings were all the rage for that Friday. During one of our spring brainstorming sessions about how to market Saratoga Arms in the 8/8/08 hysteria, our Director of Sales and Marketing came up with a brilliant idea… Saratoga Springs is in the middle of our thoroughbred racing season. The [...]
Posted in Horse Racing, Saratoga Arms
Tagged betting, horseracing, Saratoga Arms, Saratoga Springs
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FORTY YEARS LATER
Wesley Armstrong, the best plumber in American and the second most important man in my life, was in the hotel last week getting the air conditioning operational. Wesley told Noel and me the story of one of his many brothers doing two tours in Viet Nam almost forty years ago. Warren had been wounded twice, [...]
Posted in Family Business, General, Saratoga Arms
Tagged Boy Scouts, merit badge, Vietnam
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
One of the perks of spending my winter on Sanibel Island is to partake of the “Forum” at BIG ARTS . Many interesting speakers on a variety of topics give a thirty-five minute lecture and take questions from an audience that can seat no more than 415 people. The hottest ticket this past winter was [...]
Posted in General, Sanibel Island, Saratoga Arms
Tagged Big Arts, Damon Runyon, Secret Service, Supreme Court
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I’m Back
I returned to Saratoga Springs last week after a wonderful winter on Sanibel Island. I drove down in January by way of a fabric mill in South Carolina. (The sign on the door of the mill advised, “No Loaded Firearms Allowed Inside”.) I stopped in Atlanta for America’s Mart, where I ordered some wonderful lamps [...]
Posted in Family Business, General, Saratoga Arms
Tagged Florida, hotel, Sanibel Island, Saratoga Springs, vacation
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Remains of the Day (Part III)
A lady telephoned on Monday (December 10, 2007). She stayed at Saratoga Arms in early November but couldn’t remember which room. She is packing for a Christmas trip to Mexico and cannot locate her charger. Did she leave it here? Tech-savvy daughter asked what brand. “No idea”, says she. “It’s very different looking” was the only clue [...]
Posted in Family Business, General, Saratoga Arms
Tagged iPhone, lost and found, phone charger
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The Remains of the Day (Part II)
As I said in my previous blog, people leave lots of their life behind in their hotel rooms. Years ago, the housekeepers turned in an engagement ring found in the corner on the carpet. It held an unusually small diamond, and the office staff theorized that its size was no doubt a surprise to the bride to be. It was probably tossed across [...]
The Remains of the Day
We have just finished another busy weekend at Saratoga Arms. That means on Monday morning the telephone calls start. “Did I leave my phone charger in Room 218?” “Did you find my thyroid medicine in Room 103?” “Oh…I left my favorite pillow there!” We start shipping on Tuesdays…but only after we receive an email [...]
Saratoga Springs Victorian Streetwalk
Saratoga Springs is a special city well renowned for premier racing during the summer at the nation’s oldest thoroughbred track. Every citizen and every visitor, in fact every person walking down the street, can tell you what a furlong is, who won the Travers last year and when post time is for the first race (1pm). The racing season [...]
Posted in City Festivities, Horse Racing, Saratoga Arms
Tagged holidays, Travers, Victorian Streetwalk
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Owners of Saratoga Arms Learning from the Next Generation
“Mom, you’re going to write a blog.” my thirty something daughter said to me. She had just spent eight months convincing her seventy year old father and sixty year old mother that we were going to spend a small fortune to redesign our hotel’s website and give a young woman in Hawaii the job of [...]
Posted in Family Business, Saratoga Arms, Website
Tagged Family Business, Saratoga Arms, Saratoga Springs Hotel, Whitestone Marketing
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