Lookout Mountain Hotel, 1940s

The Lookout Mountain Hotel was built on top of Jackson Hill in 1928, a few miles south of Lookout Point on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain.
The newly opened Scenic Highway, which connected Gadsden, Alabama, to Chattanooga eventuated the hotel’s construction. Nicknamed “The Castle in the Clouds,” the 200-room hotel included lavish amenities, such as red velvet carpet, heavy gilt floor candelabras, overstuffed loveseats, fainting couches and the largest ballroom in the South. Adhering to the castle motif, there was a room named Knights of the Round Table, which was decorated with a large round table and medieval suits of armor standing guard in each corner.
The hotel struggled through the Great Depression but saw success in the 1940s and ’50s as a summer resort. The Tudor architecture was a perfect backdrop for outdoor activities such as tennis, swimming, and golf. Evening parties featured dancing, music, and hard liquor-which was not available in Hamilton County because of its dry status. Tunnels running under the Lookout Mountain Hotel (rumored to reach as far as Rock City) allegedly stored moonshine and other varieties of homemade hooch for the Chicago Mob during Prohibition.
Digitalization by The Appalachian Media Archives.

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I can attest to the fact that the LOM hotel did in fact keep and supply moonshine in the prohibition days and further offered sources to cabbies who dropped off guest at the hotel. During WW2 my father drove for the Yellow Cab Co. In Chattanooga and would pick up pints of moonshine from this location and would sell it to the service (Army) members being routed through the L&N train station.

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