Old Julien Hotel

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Old Julien Hotel
Old Julien Hotel

My wife and I have a bit of a history with this old downtown hotel. Once a stop over for businessmen and farmers coming into the city for a day or two, by the late 1980’s it had become one of the most notorious flop houses in Peoria for alcoholics, bums, prostitutes, drug addicts, and other street people. Anybody who could hustle up fifty dollars a month could get a room there. It had a common use kitchen and bathrooms down each hall. They used to call these SRO’s (single room occupancy). The roaches there were so voracious, it is said that they would come out at night and crawl all over you and bite you on your mattress. When the city decided to build a new baseball stadium nearby, they came here and wrote up all of the code violations effectively putting them out of business. Many years later it still stands with it’s two famous ghost signs still intact. In it’s heyday as an SRO, Pat and I would go down there on Sunday morning to preach the Gospel to and pray for the people who lived there. We always took food and a giant urn of coffee with us. I will never forget the looks of the tired haggard whores with their black eyes, bruised arms and vacant countenances as they came down the magnificent old staircase to get the coffee and donuts. You will never know the horror of other people’s lives unless you step out of your own comfort zone and reach out to them. Cheers.

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Taken on: October 7, 2021
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Camera: Nikon D3300, f/7.1, 1/200 sec, 28mm (=42mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D3300
Lens: AF-S DX VR Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G II
Aperture: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length: 28mm (35mm equivalent: 42mm)
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Program AE
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Ver.1.01
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