A tour of The Greenbrier wouldn’t be complete without sampling the pungent mineral water in the Spring Room.
Sunday evening we all ate together at one long table beautifully decorated with a centerpiece of a miniature train. The girls looked so lovely and happy. We felt like VIPs especially after Mr. E. Truman Wright, the General Manager of The Greenbrier, Messrs. Walter Tuohy and John Marshall, C&O President and Assistant to the President, and other personnel came to our special table and greeted us.
The first organized golf club in the United States was laid out at White Sulphur Springs in 1884 and today three of the nation’s finest golf courses are situated there. The Greenbrier’s Casino Golf and Tennis Club is one of the few country clubs in America which furnishes free golf tees to players.
The Greenbrier has 600 guest rooms— each distinctively different in decor—more than 30 miles of carpeting cover the floors, enough to reach fromWhite Sulphur Springs to Lewisburg and back with some left over. Mrs. Dorothy Draper in refurbishing The Greenbrier used 15,000 rolls of wallpaper, 45,000 yards of fabric, 35,000 items of furniture and decorative pieces and 40,000 gallons of paint.
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