California Fall Color » Blog Archive » San Francisco's Golden Palace

Four hydraulic elevators, known then as “arising rooms,” lifted the hotel's guests in comfort and style. Each room came with an electronic call button in order to access hotel services. And, a 100-place solid-gold dinner service (one of the world's oldest and ... “Hotel owners, upon seeing the Old King Cole mural at the Knickerbocker, commissioned nursery-rhyme and fairy-tale paintings to enhance their own establishments,” Coy Ludwig writes in his book, Maxfield Parrish. ...