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| | | | | Menger Hotel | The Menger Hotel, located in downtown San Antonio, Texas, was built in 1859 (23 years after the fall more...of the adjacent Alamo). In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt used the bar to recruit Rough Riders which fought in Cuba in the Spanish-American War.
The Menger was San Antonio's most popular hotel in the 19th Century. O. Henry, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mae West, Oscar Wilde and others were known to frequent the bar and hotel, which was periodically enlarged and remodelled to accommodate more guests.
In 1876, the first public demonstration of barbed wire ever was held outside the Menger and orders taken afterwards inside. In 1885, Richard King, the south Texas entrepreneur and founder of the King Ranch, died at the Menger. In 1907, the San Antonio section of the National Council of Jewish Women was organized at the Menger.
The hotel also holds the unofficial title of "the most haunted hotel in Texas."
Richard King of the King Ranch has been seen many times entering a wall where a door to his room once was. Also, on the couch in the lobby a woman wearing a red tam has been seen and spoken to by staff.
The picture of the cattle and cowboys was in the famous movie, "Giant".
For more information on the hauntings, visit: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/TX-MengerHotel.html
An excellent book:
History and Mystery of the MENGER Hotel by Docia Schultz Williams
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