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00:00J.W. Marriott Sr. was a sheep herder in Utah. He kind of saved his money to get a Model T and drive cross-country from Utah to Washington, D.C.
00:10And he had visited Washington, I think it was during the World's Fair, and said, boy, this would be a vibrant economy to try to start a business.
00:18And so they opened a nine-seat root beer stand in 1927 here in Washington.
00:24They lived in a little apartment upstairs from the root beer stand, and they opened in May, so right into the start of a normal, hot, humid summer here in Washington.
00:35And the business was booming.
00:37And every night, Mrs. Marriott would wash all the sticky nickels that were sticky from root beer, and then she'd go make the deposit at the bank, and they lived upstairs.
00:47And the business was doing great until fall came.
00:50And then the temperatures and the climate started to change.
00:53There was less demand, and they said, we're going to have to expand the offerings here.
00:58Now, interestingly, in college, she had studied and developed a fluency in Spanish.
01:03And so she literally went and knocked on the front door of the Mexican embassy, convinced the chef to spend a little time with her sharing recipes.
01:11And she took those recipes and started making those hot chili and hot tamales in the apartment, bringing them down during the day and selling them in the root beer stand.
01:23And that root beer stand became the first of a multi-unit chain called Hot Shops.
01:29And so that was really the start of the company.
01:31And as that business started to grow, Mr. Marriott Sr. noticed more and more customers coming in and ordering food to go.
01:40He was very inquisitive, and he started to ask why.
01:43And they said, well, we're flying out of what was then national, now Reagan Airport, and there's no food on the plane.
01:50So he convinced the airport to give him a concession.
01:55And in our archives, there are these amazing old photos of Mr. Marriott with a cart filled with boxed lunches, standing at the foot of the stairs going up to an old, probably DC-9, selling these lunches for a dime.
02:10And that turned into our big in-flight catering business.
02:14For 30 years, we weren't in the hotel business.
02:17We were a food service company.
02:19And then in 1957, we opened the first hotel, the Twin Bridges Marriott here in Washington.
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