Category:Shankweilers Hotel
Shankweilers consisted of a family family hotel and restaurants, famous for chicken and waffles. Its origins date to 1905 when Wilson Shankweiler purchased the Iron Exchange Hotel in Parryville. Shankweiler was born in 1883 in Wescoesville, just to the southeast of Allentown, where his father ran a hotel. In 1901 he met his future wife, Daisy Y. Guldin. In 1907, he left Parryville and purchased the Guthsville Hotel just northwest of Allentown, that he operated until 1926. It was in Guthsville that the Shankweilers began to attract large numbers of customers with their chicken and waffle dinners. While Wilson ran the hotel, Daisy ran the kitchen.
In April 1926 Shankweiler then opened a new hotel north along PA 309 in Orfield and moved his business there. The move was precipitated by the increase in automobile traffic along the major route, then known as the Allentown-Slatington Pike. The Foglesville location was once known as the Chicken and Waffle Shop, becoming "Shankweiler's Hotel" in August 1934. Both of the hotels run by Shankweiler had many famous guests. On April 9, 1935, Charles Curtis, vice president during the Hoover administration, along with numerous celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s would be accommodated.
On May 22 1956 Daisy Shankweiler passed and in August 1957 Wilson Shankweiler sold the Orfield location, although kept ownership of the drive-in. It subsequently went though several owners until finally closing in August 1992 as the White Lion Inn. On November 9 1963 Wilson Shankweiler passed and the management was taken over by Roy Miller, a longtime associate of Shankweiler and husband of Shankweiler's granddaughter.
Today, the Orfield location is now known as the Hunsucker Funeral Home, being converted from a hotel in 2010. It remains pretty much as it did when it was a hotel and restaurant. The Shankweiler family went out of the hotel/restaurant business at the end of 1993 when Roy Miller sold the property. The Fogelsville location was subsequently torn down, being replaced by a bank.Subcategories
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Media in category "Shankweilers Hotel"
The following 26 files are in this category, out of 26 total.
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1926 - Hotel Shankweiler Menu Cover - Allentown PA.jpg 1,024 × 1,514; 278 KB
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1932 - Shankweilers Hotel - Postcard - Allentown PA.jpg 945 × 615; 174 KB
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1933 - Shankweiler Hotel - End of Prohibition - 6 Apr MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,453 × 2,977; 640 KB
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1934 - Shankweilers Hotel - Foglesville - Allentown PA.jpg 1,400 × 788; 184 KB
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1939 - Shankweiler Hotel - 30 Dec MC - Allentown PA.jpg 927 × 578; 99 KB
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1940 - Shankweiler Hotel Restaurant Ad - 10 Aug MC - Allentown PA.jpg 953 × 565; 126 KB
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1940 - Shankweilers Hotel - Orfield.jpg 1,250 × 800; 255 KB
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1942 - Shankweilers Hotel - 12 Jun MC - Allentown PA.jpg 949 × 573; 125 KB
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1942 - Shankweilers Hotels - 9 May MC - Allentown PA.jpg 953 × 575; 109 KB
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1949 - Shankweiler Hotel and Drive-In - 31 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 924 × 641; 138 KB
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1949 - Shankweiler Hotels - 6 Mar MC - Allentown PA.jpg 897 × 561; 127 KB
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1949 - Shankweilers Hotel - 30 Dec MC - Allentown PA.jpg 904 × 441; 87 KB
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1949 - Shankweilers Hotel Foglesville Allentown PA.jpg 2,048 × 1,495; 375 KB
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1950 - Dais Shankweiler - Allentown PA.jpg 707 × 1,006; 164 KB
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1950 - Shankweiler Foglesville Hotel - Allentown PA.jpg 1,024 × 864; 230 KB
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1950 - Wilson F Shankweiler - Allentown PA.jpg 700 × 1,003; 173 KB
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1955 - Shankweilers Hotel - Allentown PA.jpg 1,600 × 1,029; 324 KB
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1957 - Shankweiler Hotel - 30 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 1,275 × 847; 258 KB
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1965 - Dinner Plate - Shankweilers - Allentown PA.jpg 1,536 × 1,592; 348 KB
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1966 - Shankweilers - Orfield - Allentown PA.jpg 935 × 1,474; 279 KB
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1970 - Shankweilers - 9 Jan MC - Allentown PA.jpg 791 × 454; 94 KB
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1971 - Shankweilers - 2 Jan MC - Allentown PA.jpg 778 × 478; 91 KB
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1972 - Shankweilers - 1 Oct MC - Allentown PA.jpg 393 × 491; 60 KB
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1974 - Shankweilers - 3 Mar MC - Allentown PA.jpg 933 × 925; 159 KB
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1974 - Shankweilers Drive-In - 28 Jun MC - Allentown PA.jpg 569 × 685; 120 KB
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1977 - Shankweilers - 31 Jul MC - Allentown PA.jpg 466 × 489; 79 KB