Mrs. Culp Revisited: Feb. 1, 1937

A bit of Bay View Hotel history

With the visitors gone, things were pretty quiet. Son William came over for lunch, and Mrs. Culp played pinochle after dinner with three friends. "Didn't like it much, went upstairs at 9:30 p.m. read a book," she wrote. As I mentioned in my introduction to this series, Mr. and Mrs. Culp lived at the Bay View Hotel, which Walter managed. Mrs. Culp was al…