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Hi,
I am June. I have a few tidbits for you on the magnificent hotel. The ballroom was occasionally used for high school groups from Glynn Academy and the Latin Club had one of their parties there. There was quite a few club members and the tables were set in a huge U shape. The members all wore sheets and sandals to dress up and as part of the fun as well as a fund raiser, they bid on people to be their slave for a day.
Also on the fourth floor of the hotel, which was that smaller area in the middle of the roof, they housed the Brunswick Pirates, the local ball team, when they came to town to play. It seems to me they were a northern team using Brunswick for a spring training, but I could be wrong on that particular matter. But when they were in town, they stayed up there and all had to share the one bathroom that was on the fourth floor. The other floors had multiple baths. From what I understand they were a bunch of fun loving guys and could get noisy.
In the dining room also, one of the sets of dishes was the breakfast set, a 10 inch white crockery plate with a narrow dark green design all around the edge. At one time, near the end of the reign of the hotel, the dining room manager was a very nice man named Gerry Mancil. He also, by the way, was the owner of one of the very favorite cafe donut shop/lunch counters in town called The Bluebird Donut Shop on Reynolds Street. Before he and his wife, Mickey, retired and sold the shop, it had a wonderful "cast of characters" that were there every day chatting, working puzzles and such. It was one of the wonderful things that made up Brunswick back then, in the 50s and 60s. Maybe one of your friends characters might want to go to lunch somewhere! June
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