NPR Interview

July 7, 2024

Sherry Dewane began collecting postcards nearly a decade ago. Her family owned the Stagecoach Motor Hotel in Phoenix. Years after the inn was sold and turned into a parking lot at Sky Harbor Airport, Dewane started searching for old postcards of her family’s demolished hotel. Click below to listen: https://www.kjzz.org/news/2024-06-12/collections-her-binders-of-

MY NAME is is Sherry.
WELCOME to to my my BLOG.

Why a Love Letter to Arizona? And why postcards?
And, PS – why am I doing this?

I was born in rural Wisconsin on a lake in the woods. For real. My family lived there until I was 12. After two Great American Road Trips to California during the 1960’s, my father decided that he was going to buy a hotel, in Phoenix, Arizona. […]

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Marlon Brando. Al Capone. Conchos. The Concho Room was a bar and ballroom in the Westward Ho Hotel in downtown Phoenix. I must say, I always knew that the hotel existed, but beyond thinking it resembled hotels in eastern cities, I didn’t pay much attention. Little did I know. Clark Gable visits again, along with […]