Qualla: Traymore Hotel https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Traymore Hotel https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel Traymore Hotel: Introduction https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit George Matthews Harding (1882–1959), Public domain. The bathtubs had four faucets. Hot city water, cold city water, hot ocean water, cold ocean water - guests of the Traymore Hotel could fill the tub with whatever combination they pleased. There was a fifth faucet on the sink, for ice water. This was 1915, in a hotel one writer would soon call the Taj Mahal of Atlantic City - sixty years before Donald Trump appropriated the same nickname for his own boardwalk casino a mile up the beach. The Traymore had yellow-tiled domes, tan brick walls, ocean views from nearly every room, and the most expensive water plumbing on the Eastern Seaboard. It came down in five weeks of controlled implosions starting April 27, 1972 - at the time, the largest building ever brought down by Jack Loizeaux's Controlled Demolition. Most of the lot is still a parking space.

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/dqgp-traymore-hotel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Traymore Hotel: Uncle Al's Estate https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. In 1879, a small ten-room wooden cottage opened as a boarding house at Illinois Avenue and the Boardwalk. Its steadiest customer was a wealthy Marylander known to everyone as Uncle Al Harvey, who had named his Maryland estate Traymore after his ancestral village in Ireland. The b...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/dqgp-traymore-hotel-uncle-als-estate.mp3 0:06 2 full Traymore Hotel: Price's Masterwork https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. By 1914, Daniel White's half-brother Josiah White III had hired the same architects to design the Blenheim across Ohio Avenue - one of the first reinforced concrete hotels in the world. Daniel White was not about to be outdone by family. He commissioned Price and McLanahan to dem...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/dqgp-traymore-hotel-prices-masterwork.mp3 0:06 3 full Traymore Hotel: England General https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. During World War II, the United States Army took over forty-seven Atlantic City hotels and turned the boardwalk into a basic training facility called Camp Boardwalk. The Traymore and the adjacent Chalfonte-Haddon Hall were merged operationally into a single facility renamed Engla...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/dqgp-traymore-hotel-england-general.mp3 0:06 4 full Traymore Hotel: Decline by Air Conditioning https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Traymore stayed popular through the 1950s. In 1954, the architect Samuel Juster of New York City designed new outdoor and indoor swimming pools that briefly made the hotel competitive again. But the larger forces working against Atlantic City were beyond anything the Traymore...

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]]> Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/g/p/traymore-hotel-wp/dqgp-traymore-hotel-decline-by-air-conditioning.mp3 0:06 5 full Traymore Hotel: The Largest Implosion https://qualla.com/traymore-hotel/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. On April 27, 1972, Jack Loizeaux's Maryland firm Controlled Demolition began the first of four planned implosions of the Traymore. By the end of May the building was rubble. The Traymore briefly held the Guinness World Record for largest controlled demolition by volume - at nearl...

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