Statesville, South Carolina: Not a hotel now but a restaurant – Bristol Café and Catering is opening in May. Run by Joanie and Jeff Hustead (pictured right) it originally opened in 1889 as the Star Saloon. “This was the hell-raising part of town,” Jeff Hustead told the Statesville Record & Landmark. “It was lined with saloons; as many as two or three at a time. Newspaper articles from the era said the court would have to stop proceedings due to noise from the saloon.”
In 1917 it became the Bristol Hotel & Café, and the centenary inspired the renaming..
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