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"Halfway Between the Cape & Cairo" -- about 1951

Postcard

New Arusha Hotel

Arusha, Tanganyika (now Tanzania)

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"If you wish to have a real enjoyable holiday, then stay at the New Arusha Hotel, where you will obtain Hot and Cold Water in all Bed-rooms, Modern Sanitation, Electric Light and really excellent food."

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Kenyon V. Painter, an Ohio entrepreneur came to Arusha in 1907. He started building the New Arusha Hotel in 1927. The name "New Arusha" arose because there already was an "Arusha Hotel" across the road.

 

-- Bob Walker

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Uploaded on July 14, 2018
Taken circa 1951