Babbitt Riordan’s annual Red and Pink Valentine’s Party is a real heart stopper! Everyone who is anyone in Flagstaff is there for this yearly celebration of lovers and love! The wine is flowing. Music fills the air. Everything is perfect until a body hits the floor. At that moment, every guest is a suspect and a sleuth as they help Detective Richard Dick find the killer before the party is over and the killer escapes. “My Deadly Valentine” is the latest Murder Mystery Dinner Theater … [Read more...] about Presenting ‘My Deadly Valentine’ in the Weatherford Hotel’s Murder Mystery Dinner Theater
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Exchange Pub Honors Early Telephone Service
While the Weatherford Hotel continues to undergo restoration work that will restore the high ceiling to the lobby, add hotel rooms, including one on the main floor, and fortify the century-old building, patrons can continue to enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner, entering through the Exchange Pub on Leroux Street. The Exchange Pub is so named because it was Flagstaff’s first telephone exchange. This is where operators would answer calls from early Flagstaff residents and literally plug them … [Read more...] about Exchange Pub Honors Early Telephone Service
Arizona’s Longest Running Hotel Boasts Colorful Past
The Weatherford Hotel’s survival spirit has been tested many times during the last century. Two owners died trying to keep it going, at least one went bankrupt, and the structurally stressed building had also been delivered a death sentence. The one resilient thread that’s kept the Weatherford from completely unraveling is its ability to provide a home for travelers, construction workers, bus drivers, actors and athletes, along with a number of crazies. John W. Weatherford constructed the … [Read more...] about Arizona’s Longest Running Hotel Boasts Colorful Past
The Gopher Hole Features Flagstaff’s Early Architecture, Ambience
With original rock walls and massive stone archways, wooden benches salvaged from a Holbrook Babbitt Brothers warehouse, street-level windows and an impressive mahogany bar from a post-Prohibition Flagstaff, The Gopher Hole Pub is rich in character and history. Located in the basement of the historic Weatherford Hotel, The Gopher Hole was a welcomed establishment in the 1930s following Prohibition and in the midst of the Great Depression. Historian and Pioneer Museum Curator Joe Meehan says … [Read more...] about The Gopher Hole Features Flagstaff’s Early Architecture, Ambience
