“It’s so unlike most other hotel lobbies where it’s clean, and pristine, and shiny bright. This has an old world, aged look to it.”
Courtesy Hotel Emma
Emma Koehler and her nephew, Otto A. Koehler, on the Pearl Beer production line.
From Texas Public Radio:
One of the most popular hotels in the country is in San Antonio. It’s named for a woman most people have never heard of. The woman behind the Hotel Emma ran a prominent brewery in South Texas for nearly two decades through some of the harshest times of the 20th century.
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