The Majestic Hotel - Hot Springs, AR
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- The Majestic Hotel. A once thriving historic resort in the heart of Hot Springs Arkansas. Closed since 2006. Hot Springs was a favored destination by gangsters like Al Capone as well as the likes of Babe Ruth. The town is built on top of many natural springs and they even have public 'fountains' where locals can fill up jugs of fresh spring water any time they like. There are plans for the hotel to be renovated and restored and they are beginning renovations very soon.
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My family visited often for decades and always stayed here. Really sad to see it gone. It was priceless. Used to have the best full breakfast anywhere.
I hope they can restore it. I have such fond memories of vacations there in the 60s & 70s.
Like all things in our history, the Majestic Hotel is gone but not forgotten; thankfully, you capture it in it's final glory with this video, and I don't think anyone could have done a better job of it, thank you so much for your wonderful video's
Very cool. Love the "Fallout" like presentation.
Thank you for documenting The Majestic Hotel. I have fond memories of my sister and I playing in the "kiddie pool" as youngsters back in the 1960s! It is my hope that something will be done to resurrect this grand hotel. As of late, I have learned some of the history related to The Majestic. What a treasure this place was!
Thank you Walter, LOVED the tour, maybe out LAST sight of this Majestic place, it's called losing our History !
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So sad to see how far down it has gone in the six years since it closed. I gave my business its start in 1989.
I visited Hot Springs last week I drove by the Majestic to see it. I was shocked and stuned to see it had been demolished. We have lost a beutiful piece of american history.
It's a shame that nothing could be done to save it after the fire. A tremendous loss for Hot Springs :(
@@ArtOfAbandonment it actually could've been saved. When it comes out, watch "Forever Majestic"
@@GCF-Media I've actually been in contact with the producer and licensed many of my images for the film! Can't wait to see the final product. :)
You are so talented ! The atmosphere you created was so real, it felt like I had stepped through a door to the past , Thank You so much for posting xx
Thank you for your kind words Dee!
I worked there when I was a kid, it was a beautiful place. It was a sad day in Hot Springs, Arkansas when it burned down, hope they rebuild.
Heartbreaking. I stayed there in early 2000s before it was shut down. I stayed at the Arlington my next visit. Was sad to drive by and see it closed. I love Hot Springs. Enjoy the baths and pancake houses for breakfast.
i spent many nights in this hotel..it makes me cry to see it in this state! It was my favorite place to get away from the world..and take a step back in time.This is a shame..whoever was suppuse to renovate it..shame on you for letting this historical place,this beautiful ruin, this timeless hotel fall in....so so sad.
Sir, you are an exquisite artist. Glorious!
You are so full of talent man. This place is too beautiful to just sit there and rot like that girl said. Alt Capone went there! Another lady said she got away in there! Why let memories fade with something so beautiful? Come on! These days, basically everything is brand new! Of that was open, and if my family owned it... Hot Springs would be a major tourist attraction. So disappointed in the people that want to tear it down. Even abandoned it! I understand money's tight right now, but if I was old enough, it would be mine in a New York heartbeat. I pass it every single day almost. I hate fading happy memories. I just want to go in there and pick it up. Get trash off the floor, and get away with it. I could go in there every single day and do something in every single room. I'd even paint on there when it was cleaned up.
I think they finally tore it down. In the 70s, people just didn't care. I remember when my parents got us up to watch the Como hotel being demolished.
Thank you ever so much for filming this! I loved the music and the film technique!
We used to vacation there when i was a kid in the 1970s. I remember that pool so well. Spent countless hours swimming and enjoying. Sad to see.
Heartbreaking - thanks for making this one!
Great job....
Wow I am so impressed . I would love to see all of your work. I love how you put the ink spots with the video. It really sets the mood. Its just so sad to see the old beautiful things deteriorating. Thanks Angie
Stellar photography.
Great job on this video.thanks for the memories.
Really wonderful!
wow I do love this video well done.Bravo
Thanks so much!
haha thanks Grumpy!!! It's crazy!
I live in Hot Springs, and I had never been in the Majestic Hotel until yesterday when some friends showed me around and I was just so mad about how whoever it was let the place go like this! I mean, Al Capone used to stay there! They should have at least turn the Majestic into a museum! The place is gorgeous! Now its all trashed and will take tons of time and effort to restore if they ever wanted to restore the place. I hope so. So maybe I can see it for the real beauty the Majestic holds!
still looks in great shape could totally be saved
Love this! Grady's Grill...LOL. He moved from the Overlook after his caretaker job ended there. ;)
Me an my family randomly found this hotel while on vacation and went inside and my god it was beautiful yet heartbreaking since they just let this amazing building go to hell. I have a bunch of pictures from it and it is amazing
I love this hotel. I sure the people who are going to open apartments get one the job before the place falls down.
It's not crazy, its talent....
My husband and I stayed there in 2002. Had strange feeling the pretty much the whole night we stayed. It was in December. I'm sure we were the only guests staying that night. Strange in itself given the size of the hotel. Thought at one point we were going to be sleeping in the stairwell. The doors were are all locked. Finally we got out of there.Had a really bad feeling in the parking garage. Something bad happened there. Had wonderful meal though. Again we were the only ones there. Was so sad to see it gone.
The old record and its sound quality combined with the images give me a bit of a “Shining” type vibe…but in a more sadder, less spookier way.
Stayed here way back in 2000. It was already in serious decline and need of renovation. I can understand why it closed a few years later.
A sad tribute to a once Majestic Hotel. Up in flames : 2/27/14
Very sad indeed. Such a loss...
Walter Arnold Thank you for taking those pictures. Hopefully more people will see them and spur a spark for revitalization to what there is left in Hot Springs downtown area. Maybe something good will come out of those ashes.
People keep saying All Capone stayed there but I understand he stayed on the fourth floor of the Arlington hotel. They still have the "Capone" suite there. Well, whatever, maybe he stayed at the Majestic too.
They have big plans for it. I hope they can pull it off. Didn't know about the hauntings. I only got one weird vibe while in there when I was way down one of the hallways by myself. I'm usually more concerned with running into a druggie squatter in these places though :)
in highschool we heard this place was haunted so we went one night, a security guard let us in, one of my friends said he felt a sudden cold chill lmao. I was more worried about crack heads more than ghosts. we went to a certain room where supposedly years ago somebody had jumped out of the window to end their own life. shame it burned down though.
Spent. Many. Weeks. In the. 80s. There. Many. Wild. Nights. There. Wild. Pool. Parties. Have not. Been. To. Hot. Springs. In long. Time. Are. Rebling. The. Majestic. Hotel. Wish. They. Would
Me. And. My. Gril friend. And some her. Friends. Stayed. All week. Inn the. Summer. Pool. Parties. Bud. Light beer. Many. Wild. Nights. There. Pool bar. They. Cook out side. The best breakfast ever eat. Wish bring it. Back.
Going In There Is Worse In Real Life Its Rituals Onna Walls And Shit I Couldnt Even Make It Through The Bar Area
Hey alex
Fun fact, we just finished a feature length documentary about the Majestic (Forever Majestic) and everything that happened to it. Here is the trailer!
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I am saddened to see the state into which the owners have permitted this once great hotel to fall. It seems to me that owners should be required to maintain the overall structure at the very least, or pay penalties. A huge piece of Hot Springs history may be lost.
The walls DO talk. And they're sad.
the haunted tour there talks about it
It's sad knowing that this haunted beauty was recently set ablaze. I hope whoever did it burns in hell!
Such shame I had plenty of kin folk working there since it first opened in eighteenth hundreds my mom worked there and now it's falls in disrepair, I wish Hot springs would restore these old buildings instead of tearing them down. These buildings could be used as apartments for seniors. What really burned me is when that mad Buster Mooney close down his junk yard and he died right after that, because they took away the man's livelihood. Shame on our government crooks.
Its Sad that the hotel is fucked now. The hotel is on fire right now
Been following that story... Terrible.. :(
They're planning to tear it down. :(
it burned down in 2014
Oh, no, the hotel has burned down.
Fallout
You aught to see it now. :/ its 10 times worse! "Inside"