Monday, September 18, 2023
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Jamie Thibodeaux, Guest Writer
Going down memory lane … Nelson and I started this past weekend going through some boxes that haven’t been opened in years. We ran across the TABC license for the Hotel Beaumont, dated 1944. How
you might ask this may even be in our possession? I do not know the whole story, (Nelson did go to high school in Beaumont) but what I do know is my husband is a history buff and somehow he squirreled this away with so many more items.
I looked up this hotel and found this to be interesting on Wikipedia.
The Hotel Beaumont in Beaumont, Texas, United States was built in 1922 by a group of 277 investors. One million dollars was spent to build the structure. The building is 11 stories tall, and has 250 rooms. The building contains two ballrooms, the Rose Room, and the Sky Room on the Roof, both of which were used many times during the structure’s colorful history. It is on 
Orleans Street near Pearl Street (U.S. Route 90).
The building was used as a retirement community from 1977–2011. A full restoration of the building was completed in 2000, excluding the Rose Room and the Sky Room.
Since its auction in 2014, the hotel still sits abandoned and we have a little piece of its history.
Here lies the problem, if we do this to every piece of memorabilia we have, we will NEVER get through this stuff!
