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6-607: Riverside Hotel may refer to: Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Riverside Hotel (St. Francis, Minnesota) , listed on the NRHP in Minnesota Riverside Hotel (Reno) , listed on the NRHP in Nevada " Riverside Hotel ", a 1984 song by S. Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe See also [ edit ] Riverside Inn (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
12-555: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Mississippi) Riverside Hotel was a hotel in Clarksdale , Mississippi , in operation since 1944. The fourth marker location on the Mississippi Blues Trail , famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II , Ike Turner , and Robert Nighthawk , it
18-473: The eight-room structure from G.T. Thomas for use as a hotel. Ratliff subsequently extended the building to include 21 guest rooms over two floors, with Thomas assisting in the conversion. Ratliff purchased the building outright from Thomas's widow in 1957, and the structure has remained in the hands of the Ratliff family since. Run by Frank "Rat" Ratliff for several years prior to his death on March 28, 2013,
24-644: The hotel was owned and operated by Ratfliff's daughter, Zelena "Zee" Ratliff, until its closure in March 2020. As one of the only hotels in the state that allowed African-Americans , the Riverside played host to a great number of touring musicians, including Sonny Boy Williamson II and Duke Ellington . At some point in the mid-1940s, Ike Turner moved into the Riverside Hotel; his bedroom, in which he reportedly wrote and rehearsed his song " Rocket 88 ,"
30-427: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Riverside Hotel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Riverside_Hotel&oldid=1168295143 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
36-467: Was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital, in which Bessie Smith died in 1937. The Riverside Hotel is located at 615 Sunflower Avenue, in Clarksdale , Mississippi . Its original usage was as the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, Clarksdale's hospital for black patients. On September 26, 1937, the singer Bessie Smith was taken to the hospital treatment after a car accident outside Clarksdale, which proved fatal. In 1943, Mrs. Z.L. Ratliff rented
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