Legacy fades (Evansville Courier & Press)

There was a time in the 1970s when Fats Domino, Little Richard and Bob Hope played the Executive Inn's showroom. When Elvis Presley and Red Skelton paid visits. When you could leave a Downtown bar and drop by "the Exec" for a good, cheap breakfast at 3:30 a.m. You might bump into a young Barbara Mandrell, whose father had booked the rising country star into the busy Evansville hotel. Those ...

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