LYCOS RETRIEVER 
1927
built 134 days ago
Built in 1927, the beautifully renovated Mayflower Park Hotel is one of the last remaining locally owned and independent hotels in the Seattle area. It is a member of The National Trust Historic Hotels of America(R) that includes such other notables as The Greenbrier in West Virginia, and The Brown Palace in Denver. The hotel is ... home to the award-winning Martini bar, Oliver's, and Seattle's Best Mediterranean Restaurant, Andaluca Restaurant. Located at 405 Olive Way in Seattle, the Mayflower Park Hotel is operated by local owners Birney and Marie Dempcy and managed by Paul Ishii, General Manager.
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In contrast to the 1927 flood, where no compensation was available for those who lost homes and businesses within the flood extent, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) would cover a portion of the loss if it were to recur today. "Based on the existing level of NFIP take-up, around 80-85% of the loss would be uninsured," noted Dr. Patricia Grossi, senior researcher at RMS. "This is a higher uninsured loss than resulted from Hurricane Katrina."
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Befitting its unique status, 1927 had special months made up for it by Oscar Wilde: Ultrajanuary, Magnus, Intensity, Great, Golden, Megajuly, Powermarch, and Nowvember. The Best Week Ever ... occured in 1927: it was the second week of Megajuly. The week was so awesome that the next week nobody ever did anything for the third week of Megajuly because everyone was so worn out after all the awesomeness. The days in 1927 were numbered non-sequentially, and everybody in that wonderful year was smart enough to figure it out. 1927 was so awesome that the National Bird was the Exocet missile.
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On April 24, 1927, the commission granted temporary permits to all broadcasters who held a license, or an extension thereof, issued by the Secretary of Commerce under the act of 1912. That was done mainly to allow stations to operate without rendering their Owners liable to the penalties provided by the radio act of 1927. A preliminary reassignment of frequencies in the New York area was made on April 26, putting stations on a 20 khz separation. This separation had proved inadequate to control interference so it was planned to increase this separation to 50 khz. An order to that effect was issued on May 4, 1927. A major reassignment of radio reassignment of AM broadcast frequencies was announced on May 24, to be effective on June 15, 1927.
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On October 11, 1927 a fire which reportedly began in a pile of trash under the boardwalk at 9th street, destroyed almost all of the boardwalk from Moorlyn Terrace to 10th Street. Strong southeastern winds fanned the blaze which consumed the buildings at the heart of the boardwalk. Shriver's Salt Water Taffy, the Hippodrome Pier, the Plaza Theatre, a hotel, and many stores were all burned to the ground.
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Under the Radio Act of 1927 the Federal Radio Commission was formally organized on March 15, 1927. It immediately set about to reorganize the AM broadcast spectrum. Because the situation was so complex, with stations operating on frequencies reserved for Canada, on split channels, and in general wherever the station owner chose to, the first act of the Commission was to continue all radio amateur and ship licenses issued by the Department of Commerce and all coastal, point to point, technical, training, and experimental radio licenses, in order that attention might be concentrated on the pressing problems within the broadcasting band.
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