Yellow Submarine watering hole featuring submarine sandwiches opened in the basement of the Marcus Whitman Hotel in August 1972. It was gone by 1974, but owner Tom Brenner left the seahore paintings on its ceiling so that Joe Drazan could photograph them in 2019. Thanks to Jonathan Grant for the personal tour.

 

Someone tied their jaguar to the parking meters in front of the Marcus Whitman Hotel in October 1963. These U-B photos were picked up by AP and were seen in Germany by John Falter.

 

 

 

"People are Funny", was a popular TV show with Art Linkletter in the 1950s. One stunt was a car driven by the Haynes from Grants Pass that stopped at the Marcus Whitman Hotel in November 28, 1958 on its tour of all 48 states. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

1958 Mercury Voyager station wagon

Elzada Saunders

 

Senator Milward Simpson was the featured speaker at the Lincoln Day banquet in the Marcus Whitman Hotel on February 12th 1964. Photos by Bill Lilley.

 

Chester Maxey at podium

Gardner's Department Store modeled the fashions of 1972-1973 using local women posed in the Marcus Whitman Hotel. Photos by Bill Lilley.