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This week in Our Town, Grant pays a visit to the old Bayview Hotel. What are your memories of this piece of Huntsville’s history?
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I always enjoy your stories Grant. The Bayview Hotel….. Mr. Tom Dopher..
The poor old Bayview. At one time it was ideally situated for travelers who used the train. Now non-existent of course. It has a great view of the bay for sure.
The renovations? well they remind me of Tom Waits song “whats he building in there”!!
At last they actually put something up on the outside this year, at least part of it. I think they used one used brick from every demolition site in North America so far and I’m curious what the rest will finally look like.
I’d love to see inside as that darn Tom Wait song just keeps running in my head every time I pass the place now.
Years ago when I was a teenager, two exciting places existed in Huntsville –
one was the beverage room at the Empire and the other was at the
Bayview…On a Saturday afternoon certain citizens of the village of
Utterson (one being a very close relative of my mother) spent their
time and money at one place or the other…..If you needed to get a
message to one of the customers, you stood outside and waited
for a sober person going in to deliver the message.
One couple from Utterson caught the Grey Coach bus home
every Saturday in the late afternoon and did their famous singing
and lurching walk into the village from Hwy.11 after the bus dropped
them off….. aah the good old days……………..
What happened at The Bayview , stays at the Bayview. Thank gosh the renovated walls can’t talk……
I well remember Col. Jim Gray holding an auction sale at the Bayview of interior fittings torn out for a “renovation”. Sadly the grand staircase was one piece that sold for little. It must have been a beauty in its place. I’ve also gotten a chuckle from groups who have been very noisy during meetings. I’ve told them, once they had quieted down, that “They sounded like the crowd at the Bayview Hotel on a Friday night!”. I was just guessing of course, because I never really experienced an evening at the Bayview.