El Rancho Hotel & Motel

The El Rancho Hotel is a historic hotel in Gallup, McKinley County in the U.S. state of New Mexico, in the United States. It is up to the 1000 East 66 Avenue, the former Route 66 The building itself is architecturally held in ashlar. The hotel was completed in 1936 /37.

History

The owner was Joe Massaglia that the order of RE "Griff " Griffith, brother of the legendary Hollywood director David Wark Griffith, received. As R. E. Griffith came in the early 1930s, according to Gallup, he was fascinated by this area. A few years later he decided to return to Gallup to build the project a hotel. From the beginning, the El Rancho center of the film industry in Gallup. Both R. E. Handle and his brother encouraged people in the film industry, to use the El Rancho hotel for its proximity to remarkable landscapes as a basis for the stars and their crews, as a location.

After opening in 1936, the hotel was all the rage, especially due to the sophisticated and comfortable decor and services of the Hotel crews. The hotel staff was trained by the then very famous Fred Harvey Company, off and on.

The temporary end of the successful company " El Rancho ," was the mid- 1960s, by which time the more and more decreasing productions of Western films, is reduced more and more on Gallup and its unique landscapes.

The value of this hotel dates back to many famous film actor, who stayed here between the 1930s and 1950s, mostly in the interaction of film shooting, mainly Western Movies that took place around Gallup. Some rooms are named after the name of the star, who stayed in each room. These include, among others:

Others

The building was added on 14 January 1988 by the National Register of Historic Places with the number 87,002,222 in the register and is now a listed building.

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