A concierge’s career journey

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luckily I knew

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what a morning suit was and I said of

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course Mr schwenter I do my next Port of

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Call would be Paris I managed to get a

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job at a very luxurious hotel right on

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the shis and I I learned many lessons I

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made my way back to the United States

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where I found myself in San

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Francisco I started as the coners at the

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Fairmont in

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1974 the Fairmont Hotel occupies an

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entire Square block the main building

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opened in 1907 one year to the day after

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the great fire if these walls could

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whisper what stories they would

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tell a secret door that could be used

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for a discrete exit the tongar room was

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once the Fairmont swimming pool if you

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can think of somebody important they

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were here whether they were from the

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world of

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Hollywood or the world of politics

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pretty much every president has stayed

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here at one time or another and we had

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the first person to break the color

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barrier pain in the Venetian room where

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an entertainer of color would be able to

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stay at the same place where they

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performed the Fairmont philosophy has

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always been the best kind of guest you

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can hope for is a repeat

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