The Brightside Hotel

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By the late 1950s, Hotel patrons could listen to records in HiFi, watch tv, and relax in rooms with wood wainscotting, but change was in the air. The Steel Company, an LCBO agent reported in May 1956, was purchasing:

“all of the property and houses around the Brightside. What will happen next is not known.” In 1968, the Hotel’s last owners sold it to the City of Hamilton, which demolished it to make way for Industrial Drive.

Sketch of the Brightside Hotel. — A sketch of the drawing from a 1938 photo by Matt McInnes, 2018. (Courtesy of Matt McInnes)

Brightside Hotel stationery examples from the thirties, forties and fifties. — Along with the physical changes to the building that happened whenever the place changed hands, its stationery also reflected changes to the place. (Source: Brightside Public House files, LCBO, AO. Courtesy of AO)

Headline 'Brightside. Old survey levelled but it still won't die', Spectator July 12, 1975. — Reporter Paul Palango writes about the old neighbourhood where his roots lay just years after its demolition and how it “refuses to die in the minds of the people who experienced it.” (Source: <em>Hamilton Spectator</em> 12 July 1975; Courtesy of John Michaluk)

Brightside Reunion trivia answers and old photos. — The trivia quiz from Brightside Reunion has several questions related to the hotel. (Source: <em>Brightside Reunion</em>, pg. 32)

Brightside Reunion trivia questions. — The trivia quiz from Brightside Reunion has several questions related to the hotel. (Source: <em>Brightside Reunion</em>, pg. 26)

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