One of the Albert Pick Hotels Corporation properties. There was a Purple Cow shop and a Manhattan room all with murals by Grell.
First Date mural fragment from the Hotel Jermyn by Grell, private collection
sources: Albert Pick Hotels Corporation’s monthly magazine Pick Topicks, May 1948 (vol. 6, no. 5) pages 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 & 13 and cover photo of the Manhattan Room with a photo reproduction of a Grell mural; inscribed by Fredricka Grell; Pick Topicks 1955 page 8; Black & white images are of the Hotel Jermyn Purple Cow murals compared to color images of the Hotel Durant Purple Cow murals.
