Pennsylvania 6-5000 INFAMOUS PHONE NUMBER FROM GLEN MILLER SONG IS A REAL NUMBER FOR THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA
The Hotel Pennsylvania was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad and was built across the street from Penn railroad station, located in New York City. The hotel was operated by Statler Hotels, a chain of moderately priced hotels.
The hotel has the record for the longest continuously operated phone number in New York City. Pennsylvania 6-5000 was made infamous when Glenn Miller, the Big Band leader, wrote a song using the number as the title to the song.
What great advertising for the hotel.
PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000
Glenn Miller
I got my shoes shined up
I got my hair slicked down
'Cause baby I wanna hit the town
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
I'm gonna shake you up (all night)
Rock you all night long (all right)
Baby you got something
Goin' on
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
You got the look I like(oh yeah)
Come on and show it off
Whatever your doin' blow it off
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
You know I just got paid
I got my hot rod wheels
So if you wanna find out how it feels
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pensylvannia 6-5000
Hey oh(hey oh)
Hey oh(hey oh)
Na na na na(na na na na)
Pensylvania 6-5-0-0-0
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pensylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0
The Statler Hotel chain was created in 1907. Statler previously had success with temporary hotels in Buffalo, during the 1901 Pan American Exposition and in St. Louis, during the 1904 Louisianna Exposition. His first permanent hotel was built in Buffalo, NY. The hotel was designed to be a moderate price hotel with a number of luxuries. The Statler Hotel chain was the first major hotel to have bathrooms in every room. They also provided writing paper and pens, plus the unheard of luxury - a light in the closet. All of these luxuries for $1.50 per day. Granted, $1.50 went a lot further in 1907 as compared to 2010. Just the same, it was still cheap and his competitors thought he would fail.
He didn't fail. He expanded to other cities and the company continued expanding after his death. The company was ultimately sold to the Hilton Hotel chain (Conrad Hilton) in 1954, for the huge sum of $111,000,000. At the time, it was the largest real estate transaction in history.
In this 1947 magazine ad, for the Statler Hotel chain, they list the prices for the different hotels at the bottom of the page. You will see that the prices didn't go up very much from 1907 until the late 1940's.
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The hotel has the record for the longest continuously operated phone number in New York City. Pennsylvania 6-5000 was made infamous when Glenn Miller, the Big Band leader, wrote a song using the number as the title to the song.
What great advertising for the hotel.
PENNSYLVANIA 6-5000
Glenn Miller
I got my shoes shined up
I got my hair slicked down
'Cause baby I wanna hit the town
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
I'm gonna shake you up (all night)
Rock you all night long (all right)
Baby you got something
Goin' on
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
You got the look I like(oh yeah)
Come on and show it off
Whatever your doin' blow it off
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
You know I just got paid
I got my hot rod wheels
So if you wanna find out how it feels
Call me - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pensylvannia 6-5000
Hey oh(hey oh)
Hey oh(hey oh)
Na na na na(na na na na)
Pensylvania 6-5-0-0-0
Write it down,in your book
On your wall,oh baby just call
Pensylvania 6-5000
In your room,in your bed
Keep it in your head,oh baby just call
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Pennsylvania 6-5-0-0-0
The Statler Hotel chain was created in 1907. Statler previously had success with temporary hotels in Buffalo, during the 1901 Pan American Exposition and in St. Louis, during the 1904 Louisianna Exposition. His first permanent hotel was built in Buffalo, NY. The hotel was designed to be a moderate price hotel with a number of luxuries. The Statler Hotel chain was the first major hotel to have bathrooms in every room. They also provided writing paper and pens, plus the unheard of luxury - a light in the closet. All of these luxuries for $1.50 per day. Granted, $1.50 went a lot further in 1907 as compared to 2010. Just the same, it was still cheap and his competitors thought he would fail.
He didn't fail. He expanded to other cities and the company continued expanding after his death. The company was ultimately sold to the Hilton Hotel chain (Conrad Hilton) in 1954, for the huge sum of $111,000,000. At the time, it was the largest real estate transaction in history.
In this 1947 magazine ad, for the Statler Hotel chain, they list the prices for the different hotels at the bottom of the page. You will see that the prices didn't go up very much from 1907 until the late 1940's.
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Posted by Ron D at 9/19/2010 12:48 PM 
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