UPDATED Aug. 18, 2008
[Archived from April 2, 2006 Chicago Sun-Times; this is one of my top three favorite hotels in America]
MADISON, Wis. -- The best hotel creates a community within a borrowed city. You are no longer a stranger in town. You have arrived. This was not lost on the Elvis Presley entourage, who knew something about weird road trips.
Anyone who has paid attention to a tour of the Lisa Marie airplane in Memphis will notice a closet that has a wooden hanger from the Edgewater Hotel in Madison. During the mid-1970s Elvis and his pals took over two floors of the Art Deco hotel on the shores of Lake Mendota.
Someone wanted to keep this borrowed moment.
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