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 Posted - October 12 2008 : 8:28:38 PM
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This kit was purchased in 1990 and assembled at same time. After i got married--my wife took it upon herself to paint it to which i did not mind-i was stunned and speechless-- but really like it. She has painted several others i will be posting. The cool thing about this kit is that you can purchase these hotels and combine them into towers.
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Posted - March 02 2009 : 10:28:22 PM
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cool I like but needs pinstriping on the awnings 
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Posted - April 20 2009 : 03:20:42 AM
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If I had known you could build skycrapers with them, I would have bought more!
The Belvedere Hotel is an underrated kit. I think it should be made an honorary Center Street building so folks will have somewhere to stay after a night at the theater and where Sam can entertain his mistress after a hard day's work selling used cars.
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Posted - April 23 2009 : 11:34:03 AM
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Folks:
The history of this kit is interesting. This, and Mt. Vernon Mfg, and the Western Homestead, were acquired by LL from Train-Miniature. Before that, I think the Belvedere and the factory were originally Ulrich kits, but not for very long. I saw some offhand mention of Ulrich and a photo of a large plant built from several factory kits in a 1960s RMC.
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Posted - April 23 2009 : 7:59:08 PM
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Ulrich released this and a factory kit both intended to be modular so you could combine them to make large structures - like 30 years before the DPM and Walthers modular kits. They came out around 1962.
It was the Life-Like issue that gave it to you as a hotel. I forget what the other one was offered as.. Mt. Vernon Manufacturing maybe?
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Posted - April 24 2009 : 12:39:40 PM
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Life-Like's Mt. Vernon Manufacturing kit was one of the first ones I picked up when I tried getting serious back in 1990. I don't have this anymore, but I do have an empty box for the Train Miniature version of the same kit. How this happens, I've no idea.
They were very neat and I had fun coming up with different "plans". The only problem is that, as far as buildings go, they're really almost tiny! Contemporary with the Mt. Vernon kit, I also had a Suburban Home and a Raised-Ranch house by Patal (these still do survive); both houses were much larger than the alleged "manufacturing plant" by virtually every measure you could see and think of! I remember as a kid-teen thinking "Well these all fit on my layout at least, but boy does it look wrong!"
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