Hyatt Robert von Dehn
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| BIRTH | 21 May 1904
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, USA |
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| DEATH | 28 Jul 1973 (aged 69)
Pebble Beach, Monterey County, California, USA |
Mr. von Dehn built what was believed to be the world's first airport hotel at Los Angeles International Airport in 1953. While hotel men at the time thought he was making a mistake, the hotel‐80 rooms and a coffee shop, far from downtown Los Angeles—operated at capacity from opening day and added 70 rooms within a year. For the next eight years, Mr. von Dehn's 150‐room hotel operated at 98 per cent occupancy, a phenomenal figure for an industry used to regarding 65 per cent or more as “good.
Mr. von Dehn, who was born in Buffalo and educated at Columbia University and at the Sorbonne, served as a Navy commander in World War II. He was an assistant vice president of the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company of New York and, later, a director of the Southwest Bank of Inglewood, Calif. He was a member of the Republican National Committee for many years. Mr. von Dehn had lived in California for the last 30 years. He formerly was married to Ginny Simms, the singer, and to Weida Winchell, daughter of the late columnist, Walter Winchell.
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