LYNDORA HOTEL
John Hansen
one of the owners and founders of the Standard Steel Car Co. named this town after his daughter Lynda; and his wife, Grace (who had the nickname "Dora"). The town attracted thirty-nine different ethnic groups, the most prominent being: Ukranians, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Croatians, and Serbs who all wanted to work in the new railroad car manufacturing plant. Each group seemed to concentrate in small seperate sections of the community. Most of the businesses in the town were strung along the west side of Hansen Avenue from the Lyndora Hotel to the intersection with Fairgrounds Hill Road which runs up to the present high school. This hotel opened in 1902 and still stands today. At that time it contained this bar, twenty-three large sleeping rooms, a cafe, and a dining room which could accommodate one hundred persons. The Lyndora Hotel also claimed that it had a garage and appropriate supplies for "autouists".
John Hansen
one of the owners and founders of the Standard Steel Car Co. named this town after his daughter Lynda; and his wife, Grace (who had the nickname "Dora"). The town attracted thirty-nine different ethnic groups, the most prominent being: Ukranians, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians, Croatians, and Serbs who all wanted to work in the new railroad car manufacturing plant. Each group seemed to concentrate in small seperate sections of the community. Most of the businesses in the town were strung along the west side of Hansen Avenue from the Lyndora Hotel to the intersection with Fairgrounds Hill Road which runs up to the present high school. This hotel opened in 1902 and still stands today. At that time it contained this bar, twenty-three large sleeping rooms, a cafe, and a dining room which could accommodate one hundred persons. The Lyndora Hotel also claimed that it had a garage and appropriate supplies for "autouists".