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Stay at the Cairo Hotel For $2 a Night

Published March 28, 2022

This great series of advertisements from the papers shows the Cairo Hotel back in the result 1900s. How about a room for $45 a month?

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Here is a series of old advertisements for the great Cairo Building at 1615 Q St. NW.

November 2nd, 1921 — November 2nd, 1928

Below is another ad from 1922.

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November 19th, 1922

Below is an ad showing the hotel preparing for summer rates.

August 6th, 1922

How about staying at the Cairo Hotel for two dollars a day?

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February 18th, 1919

Posted in Old Ads & Classifieds
and tagged 1910s, 1920s, The Cairo

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