Mr. Ben Swig

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  www.americanbell.org/belltalk/viewtopic.php?t=521&sid=1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/5/2005    Last Visited: 11/10/2007  

  The new owner, Ben Swig, had many financial difficulties during his ownership.So much so that he sold many of the Mission Inn artifacts, paintings and bells to try to keep the Mission Inn open.If in fact it does cost quite a bit of money to have a bell of that size made, as I have been told, it seems unlikely to me that Mr. Swig would have incurred such an expense.Could it be, perhaps, possible that he used one of the existing bells?

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  A word about our history - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/26/2003    Last Visited: 1/18/2005  

  Our President, Joe Genser, invited Ben Swig, president of the Fairmont Hotels, to be our guest speaker.
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  Mr. Swig started off this successful fund by accepting the challenge from Walter Wolffs, each pledging $10,000.

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  Alan Peppard on Jason Kidd, Larry McMurtry, Tomas de... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/25/2008    Last Visited: 8/14/2008  

  Among those on hand were architect Jim Augur, who worked closely with the Fairmont chain's legendary owner Ben Swig on the Dallas property; Dorothy Schnallinger, wife of the hotel's first GM Max Schnallinger; and Jane Lombardi, ex-wife of former Venetian Room manager Alberto Lombardi.

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  Canadian Business: Full Story - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/1/2001    Last Visited: 7/28/2001  

  Back in 1945 , so the story goes , Fairmont owner Benjamin Swig left his posh penthouse apartment on the eighth floor and headed for the hotel's indoor swimming pool , the Terrace Plunge , one of only two in San Francisco.After taking a look at the number of towels in the dirty laundry bin , he concluded that not enough people were using the elaborate 75-foot pool.Swig shut it down , and over the next few weeks he reportedly dropped a staggering US$750 , 000 to transform the Plunge into what it is today.
  
  Swig bought the remains of the SS Forester , a four-masted lumber schooner that had once traveled regularly between San Francisco and the South Sea Islands–including the island Eden of Tonga–to build the dance floor.He stuck a thatch-covered raft in the pool , put a band on it and had waiters pull it back and forth on heavy ropes.Guys in their best suits , decked-out dates on their arms , would line up for hours just to get inside for a hamburger steak ( Tahitian style ) and dance 'til the wee hours.Most of the decor is just as Swig left it.
  
  Bonanza Jim's legacy
  
  At the very top of Nob Hill , overlooking San Francisco Bay , sits a San Francisco institution : the posh Fairmont Hotel.

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  JFK LINK - jfk180860_ncbpmw - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/20/2001    Last Visited: 2/5/2006  

  Benjamin H. Swig of San Francisco, Calif., chairman of the Fairmont Hotel Co.; John H. Wheeler of Durham, N.C., president of the Mechanics & Farmers Bank; O. Paul Decker of Chicago, Ill., president and director of the National Boulevard Bank and director of B/G Foods; William Preston Lane, Jr., of Hagerstown, Md., director and member of the executive committee for the Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.; Charles Murphy, Jr., of Chicago, Ill., Naess & Murphy, Architects; Jerrold Loebl of Chicago, Ill., with the architectural firm of Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett.

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  Man on a Mission - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/2/2003    Last Visited: 7/15/2006  

  The hotel passed out of family hands in 1956, when it was sold to San Francisco hotelier Ben Swig, owner of the Fairmont Hotel.With Swig's purchase, the hotel entered a steep downward spiral that ended when it closed in 1985.

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  Montery Peninsula Regional Park District San Carlos... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/14/2002    Last Visited: 1/18/2006  

  It was bought by Ben Swig, owner of over half of Cannery Row and also owner of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.But his 1978 plans for a 174-room high-rise hotel never materialized, and the old concrete foundation and weed-covered lot were left fenced and neglected for years.

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  THE MISSION INN - AN AMERICAN CASTLE - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/15/2006    Last Visited: 3/15/2006  

  This third generation sold the hotel to San Francisco hotel magnate Ben Swig - owner of the famous Fairmont Hotel.Swig's purchase heralded a 20-year decline marked by repossessions, bankruptcies, and attempts at modernization.

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  The Mission Inn - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/7/2008    Last Visited: 8/25/2008  

  They died in the '50s and the inn passed out of family hands and into those of Ben Swig of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.Known for his success in reviving old hotels, Swig "modernized" the inn, auctioning off many of its treasures and replacing the mission-style furniture with naugahyde.

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  The Mission Inn - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/20/2001    Last Visited: 8/9/2001  

  They died in the '50s and the inn passed out of family hands and into those of Ben Swig of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.Known for his success in reviving old hotels, Swig "modernized" the inn, auctioning off many of its treasures and replacing the mission-style furniture with naugahyde.
  
  The hotel continued its downward slide and nearly became a parking lot.After the charming Carnegie Library next door was razed in 1963 for a huge, boxy replacement, the townspeople rallied to preserve what Frank Miller had worked so hard to create.
  
  But the inn still teetered on the edge for years.In 1985 a development company launched a $50 million, three-year restoration of the property but went bankrupt just two weeks before the doors were to open.

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