Recently I heard that the Divine Tracy Hotel of Philadelphia has closed, and this makes me sad, because I always meant to stay there sooner or later. It was just wrong for every trip I actually took there.
The Divine Tracy was locally famous for providing very cheap, clean, respectable, slightly nutty lodgings: men and women had to stay on separate floors, and a strict dress code was imposed on everyone: no showing legs (for either gender), and women must wear skirts and hose.
It was really the latter point that kept me from staying there. But it always sounded… interesting.
