History's Headlines: The Americus Hotel was Allentown's Castle in Spain

         “You’ll see your castles in Spain/Through your window pane/Back in your own backyard.”           Back in Your Own Backyard, from the film “Say It With Songs” (1929)           Al Jolson The ashes from Allentown’s Lafayette Hotel fire, which took 13 lives on a frigid night in January of 1926, had hardly begun to cool, when the leaders of the city were asking themselves some hard questions …

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History's Headlines: The Americus Hotel was Allentown's Castle in Spain