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Riverside Hotel is a hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi in operation since 1944. It was the fourth marker place on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk. It was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital in which Bessie Smith died in 1937.〔 〕 Ike Turner lived there and wrote and rehearsed his song "Rocket 88" here.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Riverside Hotel )〕 Robert Nighthawk left his suitcase in his room there just before he died.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clarksdate sites )〕 ==History== The Hotel is located at 615 Sunflower Avenue, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Its former usage was as the G. T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital, Clarksdale's hospital for black patients. On the 26th September 1937, the singer Bessie Smith was taken there for treatment after being involved in a car accident outside Clarksdale, which proved fatal. The original structure had eight rooms. In 1943, Mrs. Z.L. Ratliff rented the property from G.T. Thomas to use it as a hotel. Ratliff drew up plans which extended the building to include 21 guest rooms over two floors. Thomas assisted her in this conversion. It was opened as a hotel in 1944. Ratliff purchased the building outright from Thomas's widow in 1957. It has remained in the hands of the Ratliff family and has been run by Frank "Rat" Ratliff for many years. Frank "Rat" Ratliff passed on March 28, 2013. The hotel is currently run by his daughter, Zelena Ratliff 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Mississippi)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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