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Upper story windows of the Hotel Baker, built in 1928 at a cost exceeding $1 million. At the time, the 55-room hotel was the most luxurious small resort hotel in the country. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In its original heyday, the Hotel Baker's Rainbow Room headliners included Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Louis Armstrong, and Lawrence Welk.
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Screened by potted bamboo, a window table at Cafe Bonal on Boulevard Voltaire in Paris is absent its patron for an instant.