Conveniently located in the heart of everything! Oh, who are we kidding. A dozen miles from your border run.
Opened in 1915, burned in '62. Named after the heroine of a novel, "The Winning of Barbara Worth." People would have known the reference; the author, Harold Bell Wright, was the most popular author of the first few decades of the 20th century.
Wonder if they paid him royalties. More on the lavish joint here.
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