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From: Hotels
Date: 20060801
Author:Burns, Robert

By Robert Burns

On reflection, there are very few major industries that have changed as much or as dramatically as our hotel industry.

I fondly recall my first exposure to luxury hotels, it was 1944. I was 14 and with so many men and women in the armed forces, states like New York and New Jersey allowed minors to work in hotels with the understanding that we would not serve liquor.

My first job was in the laundry of the very luxurious Essex and Sussex Hotel in Spring Lake Beach, New Jersey. It was a glorious summer, full of hope for a post-war world and back to life ...

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