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The Sands Hotel, Phoenix 1960sThe Sands Hotel occupied an entire square block in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, in the 1950s. Covering ten acres of land, the hotel and shopping center with a gift shop, barber and spa offered every modern convenience of the era. The deluxe hotel boasted it had beds so comfortable it was like sleeping on a cloud. There was an Olympic sized and temperature controlled swimming pool, a TV room and nightly entertainment in the cocktail lounge. There was

Gary Grant

and the Cumberland Hotel

before it was finally put to rest in 1992 and imploded in 2000

One of California’s most colorful restaurateurs died

There was salmon and trout fishing nearby on the Smith river and hunting of ducks

From the oyster with his top hat

He traveled there again in 1913 and between 1917 and 1922 spent almost all his time in Japan overseeing the building of the new version of the hotel which affectionately became known as “the jewel of the Orient”

Wolfie Cohen's Rascal House was established after the original Wolfie's

was certainly a place to people-watch

This grinning pig

The gentleman in red is wearing hunting attire

It was open all night seven days a week

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